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

   “And take double money in your hand,....

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2. Leviticus 19:35

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

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:351 voice

   “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment,....

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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 19:362 voices

   “Just balances, just weights,....

   “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.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:201 voice

   “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.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:13–161 voice

   “Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights,.... Or, "a stone and a stone" (y); it being usual, in those times and countries, to have their weights of stone, as it was formerly with us here; we still say, that such a commodity is worth so much per stone, a stone being of such a weight; now these were not to be different: a great and a small; great weights, to buy with them, and small weights, to sell with them, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it. (y) אבן ואבן "lapis et lapis", Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator.

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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.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 12:151 voice

   "And no account was made with the men who received the money, etc." [2 Kings 12:15] This is said, about the restoration of the house of the Lord by the aforesaid king Jehoash: And no reckoning was made with the men who received the money …

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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.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 22:4–72 voices

   “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest,....

   "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he did what was right in the sight of the Lord" for the thirty-one years in which he reigned. In the eighteenth year from the beginning of his rule, he began to purify Judah …

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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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   “And I made treasurers over the treasuries,....

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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 27:61 voice

   “My righteousness, which I began to hold fast, I will not abandon. For neither doth mine heart reproach me in all my life. For 'his righteousness' that he had 'begun with,' he would 'abandon,' if he went out of the way into the praising of persons committing sin.

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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 7:31 voice

    “'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.'

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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 7:41 voice

    “'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.'

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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 15:51 voice

    “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

    "The innocent." And first he shows this in general. Second, in particular: "This is the generation." Concerning the first he does two things. First he proposes the merit. Second, the reward, at "He shall receive." In the merit there is one thing that pertains to …

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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 11:11 voice

    “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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    “Lying lips are abomination to the Lord,....

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