843 verses about Honesty

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

A gift in secret pacifies anger; and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.

A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another;

lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

Then Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.”

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”