50 Bible Verses About Honesty

““‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.”

“You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.”

“surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.”

“My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.”

“You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.”

“For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.”

“Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.”

“He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.”

“All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.”

“Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.”

“Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.”

“whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.”

“Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.”

“haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;”

“For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.”

“He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.”

“He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.”

“Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.”

“Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.”

“A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.”

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

“A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.”

“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.”

“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 Yahweh.”

“The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.”

““Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4”

“You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”

“You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

““Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.”Psalm 5:9 “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;Psalm 140:3”

“I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,”

“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.”

“For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,” “You shall not covet,” Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21 and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Leviticus 19:18”

“For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.”

“But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.”

“Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.”

“Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,”

“in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,”

“to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.”

“But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy””

“who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”Isaiah 53:9”

“For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.”

“My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.”

“In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.TR adds “before the throne of God””