43 Bible Verses About Authenticity

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

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

And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.