Quotes about Honesty
He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.
- Proverbs 28:23
Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
- Proverbs 30:6
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
- Proverbs 30:8
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
- Proverbs 30:9
It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.
- Ecclesiastes 5:5
On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
- Isaiah 3:7
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
- Isaiah 33:15
“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
- Isaiah 39:4
I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
- Isaiah 45:19
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
- Isaiah 59:4
So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
- Isaiah 59:14
Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
- Jeremiah 5:2