Honesty

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Leviticus 19:35 OT

  “ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

• Leviticus 19:36 OT

  You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 16:20 OT

  You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

• Deuteronomy 25:13-16 OT

  You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small. You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that…

• Job 27:6 OT

  I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

• Psalms 7:3 OT

  Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

• Psalms 7:4 OT

  if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

• Psalms 15:5 OT

  he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

• Psalms 24:4 OT

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Proverbs 4:25 OT

  Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

• Proverbs 11:1 OT

  A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

• Proverbs 12:22 OT

  Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

• Proverbs 16:11 OT

  Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

• Proverbs 20:10 OT

  Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 20:23 OT

  Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

• Isaiah 33:15 OT

  He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

• Isaiah 33:16 OT

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• Ezekiel 45:10 OT

  “You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

• Matthew 7:12 NT

  Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

• Mark 10:19 NT

  You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”

• Luke 3:12 NT

  Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

• Luke 3:13 NT

  He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

• Luke 6:31 NT

  “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

• Acts 24:16 NT

  In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.