Quotes About Integrity

Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his fatherís wife.

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” when I really mean “No, no”?

My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every manís conscience in the sight of God.

We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.

We put no obstacle in anyoneís way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;