Quotes About Integrity

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

and if you can swear, ëAs surely as the LORD lives,í in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

Although they say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives,í they are swearing falsely.”

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighborís wife.

“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

How can you say, ëWe are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,í when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ëI had a dream! I had a dream!í

“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”

“Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ëThe LORD declares it.í”

As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.

I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBecause you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,

But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Do not do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is a lie.”

to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.