Quotes About Honesty

Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.

I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.

ëI am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.

You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,

who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,

who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.