52 Bible Verses about Honesty

He who utters truth shows forth righteousness, but a FALSE witness, deceit.

And now, O lord LORD, thou are God, and thy words are truth, and thou have promised this good thing to thy servant.

The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise.

For the word of LORD is right, and all his work is [done] in faithfulness.

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. I, LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

But LORD is the TRUE God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know where I am from? And I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom ye know not.

May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.

For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and TRUE God,

And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE God, and the eternal life.

And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:

And I saw like a glassy sea mingled with fire, and those who were victorious over the beast and over its image and over the number of its name, standing on the glassy sea, having harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the bondman of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, righteous and TRUE are thy ways, thou King of the nations.

And he says to me, Write, Blessed are those who have been called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the TRUE sayings of God.

LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart,

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.read more.
For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to LORD thy God.

And as for thee, if thou will walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances, then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates. And let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no FALSE oath. For all these are things that I hate, says LORD.

But an hour comes, and now is, when the TRUE worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for also the Father seeks such kind who worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head--the Christ--

Helpers likewise, be honorable, not double-tongued, not attending to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,

Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility, sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.

And they send out their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it is not a concern to thee about a man, for thou look not to the personage of men.

And when they came, they say to him, Teacher, we have seen that thou are true, and it is not a care to thee about any man, for thou look not to a personage of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to give tribute

So shall my righteousness answer for me after this, when thou shall come concerning my hire that is before thee. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that [is] with me, shall be con

And take double money in your hand, and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with i And they said, Thou have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have thou taken anything of any man's hand. And he said to them, LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

And the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that thou are a man of God, and that the word of LORD in thy mouth is truth.

I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, off

Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, inasmuch as he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.

And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men.

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants of it. For of a truth LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

Also to punish a righteous man is not good, [nor] to smite nobles for uprightness.

Bloodthirsty men hate him who is perfect, but the upright seek his soul.

And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. Yea, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

And I, because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me. Which of you convicts me about sin? And if I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?

Jesus answered him, If I spoke wrongly, testify about the wrong, but if correctly, why strike me?

So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth?