100 Bible Verses About Honesty

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the Lord be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

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

If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.

When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

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

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

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.

When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.

And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.