Honesty

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• General scriptures concerningLeviticus 19:35Leviticus 19:36Deuteronomy 16:20Deuteronomy 25:13–16Job 27:6Psalms 7:3Psalms 7:4Psalms 15:5Psalms 24:4Proverbs 4:25Proverbs 11:1Proverbs 12:22Proverbs 16:11Proverbs 20:10Proverbs 20:23Isaiah 33:15Isaiah 33:16Ezekiel 45:10Matthew 7:12Mark 10:19
• INSTANCES OF
• Jacob, returning money which had been placed in the sacksGenesis 43:12
• The overseers of the temple repairs2 Kings 12:152 Kings 22:4–7
• Treasurers of the templeNehemiah 13:13
• See Integrity
• See Righteousness
• See Dishonesty

The passages, in Bible order (38)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 43:12

   Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 43:121 voice

   “The restored money in the sacks' mouth was a perplexing circumstance. But it might have been done inadvertently by one of the servants--so Jacob persuaded himself--and happy it was for his own peace and the encouragement of the travellers that he took this view. Besides the duty of restoring it, honesty in their case was clearly the best, the safest policy.

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2. Leviticus 19:35

   You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:352 voices

   “In mete-yard - In the measuring of lands, or dry things, as cloth, ribband. In measure - In the measuring liquid or such dry things as are only contigious, as corn or wine.

   “The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exo 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measures, the more probable is that the ephah did not hold quite four gallons and a half, and the hin not quite six pints. The log was a twelfth part of the hin Lev 14:10. Lev 19:36 I am the Lord your God ... - A full stop should precede these words.

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3. Leviticus 19:36

   You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:361 voice

   “Just balances - Scales, steel-yard, etc. Weights, אבנים abanim, stones, as the weights appear to have been originally formed out of stones. Ephah, hin, etc., see before.

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4. Deuteronomy 16:20

   Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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   “Judges and officers shalt thou make--These last meant heralds or bailiffs, employed in executing the sentence of their superiors. in all thy gates--The gate was the place of public resort among the Israelites and other Eastern people, where business was transacted and causes decided.

   “In another place: "You shall follow justly after that which is just," lest we turn from justice, by asserting our own view of truth, recalling the experience of Saul and Agag.

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5. Deuteronomy 25:13–16

   You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

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   “Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Lev 19:35-36). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching (compare Luk 3:12 ff); and that “the prophets” (compare Eze 45:10-12; Amo 8:5; Mic 6:10-11) and “the Psalms” Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10, Pro 20:23, not less than “the Law,” especially insist on them. Deu 25:13 Divers weights - i. e. stones of unequal weights, the lighter to sell with, the heavier to buy with.

   “Thou shalt not have . . . divers weights--Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in the balance. The man who is not cheated by the trader and his bag of divers weights must be blessed with more acuteness than most of his fellows [ROBERTS].

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6. 2 Kings 12:15

   No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

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7. 2 Kings 22:4–7

   “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

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   “That he may sum the silver - As Josiah began to seek the Lord as soon as he began to reign, we may naturally conclude that the worship of God that was neglected and suppressed by his father, was immediately restored; and the people began their accustomed offerings to the temple. Ten years therefore had elapsed since these offerings began; no one had, as yet, taken account of them; nor were they applied to the use for which they were given, viz., the repairing the breaches of the temple.

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8. Nehemiah 13:13

   I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.

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9. Job 27:6

   I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

   ›Commentary on Job 27:62 voices

   “Rather, my "heart" (conscience) reproaches "not one of my days," that is, I do not repent of any of my days since I came into existence [MAURER].

   “My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go,.... Meaning not his personal righteousness, or the righteousness of his works, as his justifying righteousness before God, and for acceptance with him; which no man that is convinced of the insufficiency of, as Job was, will hold fast, but renounce, and desire, with the Apostle Paul, not to be found in it, Php 3:

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10. Psalms 7:3

    O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

    ›Commentary on Psalms 7:32 voices

    “'O Lord my God, if I have done this.' 'Behold, the prince of this world comes, and finds nothing in me.' 'If there be iniquity in my hands.' 'Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.'

    “O Lord my God, if I have done this. The crime which Saul and his courtiers charged him with, and which was made so public that every body knew it; and therefore it was needless particularly to mention it; namely, that he lay in wait for Saul, and sought his life to take it away, 1Sa 24:

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11. Psalms 7:4

    if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

    ›Commentary on Psalms 7:42 voices

    “'If I have rendered evils to them that repaid me.' They say, 'Crucify, crucify such a one'; I say, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'

    “If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me,.... That is, when Saul was at peace with him; when he lived at his court, and ate at his table his meaning is, that he did not conspire against him, nor form schemes to deprive him of his crown nor of his life: or, as it may be rendered, "if I have rewarded to him that rewarded me evil" (u); that is, as Jarchi explains it, if I rewarded him as he rewarded me, evil for evil.

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12. Psalms 15:5

    who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 15:52 voices

    "He that putteth not out his money to usury." Usury was and is hateful both to God and man. That a lender should share with the borrower in gains made by his money is most fitting and proper; but that the man of property should eat up the poor wretch who unfortunately obtained a loan of him is abominable. Those who grind poor tradesmen, needy widows, and such like, by charging them interest at intolerable rates, will find that their gold, and their silver are cankered.

    “What is more cruel than to lend money to one who has none and then to exact double the amount? If one cannot pay the simple amount, how will he pay double?… Nations have often failed because of usury, and this has been the cause of public calamity.

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13. Psalms 24:4

    He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 24:41 voice

    “Yet in vain do those pretend to have pure and good hearts whose hands are defiled with the acts of sin. That is a pure heart which is sincere and without guile in covenanting with God, which is carefully guarded, that the wicked one, the uncle an spirit, touch it not, which is purified by faith, and conformed to the image and will of God; see Matt. v. 8 .

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14. Proverbs 4:25

    Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

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    “It is necessary that, before other things, you have a sound mind within yourselves and that you be mindful of holy Scripture addressing you and saying, "Let your eyes look straight ahead." … To slip away from the rightness of holy doctrines would be nothing else except to sleep in death. We depart from this rightness when we do not follow the divinely inspired Scriptures.

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15. Proverbs 11:1

    Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 11:12 voices

    “This emphatic reproduction of the old rule of Deu 25:13-14 is perhaps a trace of the danger of dishonesty incidental to the growing commerce of the Israelites. The stress laid upon the same sin in Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10; bears witness to the desire of the teacher to educate the youth of Israel to a high standard of integrity, just as the protest of Hosea against it Hos 12:7 shows the zeal of the prophet in rebuking what was becoming more and more a besetting sin.

    “Therefore let every man weigh his words, not with deceit and guile, for a false balance is abomination to the Lord. I do not mean that balance which weighs the wares of others, (though even in lesser matters deceit often costs dear,) but that balance of words is hateful to the Lord, which wears the mask of the weight of sober gravity, and yet practises the artifices of cunning. Great is God's anger, if a man deceive his neighbour by flattering promises, and by treacherous subtlety oppress his debtor, a craft which will not benefit himself.

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16. Proverbs 12:22

    Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

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