Honesty (Bible Verses)

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Matthew 5:37 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Deuteronomy 5:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Exodus 20:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not steal.

Ephesians 4:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Proverbs 27:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Proverbs 10:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Proverbs 27:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Proverbs 27:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Leviticus 19:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

Proverbs 11:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Ephesians 4:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Colossians 3:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Exodus 20:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Proverbs 28:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 11:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

Leviticus 19:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Proverbs 19:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Proverbs 16:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 28:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Acts 20:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Psalms 116:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Psalms 15:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Acts 5:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

Psalms 15:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Proverbs 20:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Proverbs 28:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Proverbs 12:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Titus 2:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Proverbs 20:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

Exodus 22:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbor.

Proverbs 24:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.

Leviticus 19:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Proverbs 24:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Numbers 5:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

2 Samuel 13:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

Leviticus 6:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.

Exodus 22:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

Genesis 31:39 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

Proverbs 20:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Psalms 139:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

Job 13:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

Exodus 22:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.

Genesis 44:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?

Job 31:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

Job 6:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Honesty

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