Quotes About Integrity

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be!

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

Who can harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.