Quotes About Integrity

By examining him yourself, you will be able to learn the truth about all our charges against him.”

Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.

In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

who ought to appear before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

Otherwise, let these men state for themselves any crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

So if this man has done anything wrong, let some of your leaders come down with me and accuse him there.”

Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.

If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

So when they came here with me, I did not delay. The next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered that the man be brought in.

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

And we know that Godís judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.