Bible verses about "honesty" | Coverdale

¹⁶ Thou shalt beare no false wytnesse agaynst thy neghboure.

¹³ Righteous lippes are pleasaut vnto kynges, and they loue him yt speaketh ye trueth.

⁹ He that leadeth an innocent life, walketh surely: but who so goeth a wroge waye, shalbe knowne.

³⁷ But your communicacion shalbe, yee, yee: nay, nay. For what soeuer is more then that, commeth of euel.

³¹ And as ye wolde that men shulde do vnto you, euen so do ye vnto them likewyse.

¹⁶ Therfore studye I to haue allwaye a cleare conscience towarde God and towarde men.

¹⁸ Praye for vs. We haue confidence, because we haue a good coscience in all thinges, and desyre to lyue honestly.

³ The innocent dealynge of the iust shal lede them, but the vnfaithfulnesse of the despysers shalbe their owne destruccion.

⁸ Furthermore brethren, whatsoeuer thinges are true, whatsoeuer thinges are honest, what soeuer thinges are iust, what so euer thinges are pure, what soeuer thinges pertayne to loue, whatsoeuer thinges are of honest reporte: yf there be eny vertuous thinge, yf there be eny laudable thinge, ⁹ haue those same in yor mynde, which ye haue both lerned and receaued, and herde and sene in me: those thinges do, and the God of peace shalbe with you.

⁹ Lye not one to another. Put of ye olde ma with his workes, ¹⁰ For who so listeth to lyue, and wolde fayne se good dayes, Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes yt they speake no gyle. ¹¹ Let him eschue euell, & do good: Let him seke peace and ensue it. ¹² For ye eyes of the LORDE are ouer the righteous, & his eares are open vnto their prayers. But ye face of the LORDE beholdeth the yt do euell.

¹⁶ There be sixe thinges, which the LORDE hateth, & the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth: ¹⁷ A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge, hades that shed innocent bloude, ¹⁸ an herte yt goeth aboute wt wicked ymaginacios, fete that be swift in rennynge to do myschefe, ¹⁹ a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren. ²⁰ My sonne, kepe thy fathers comaundemetes, & forsake not ye lawe of thy mother.

³² and ye shall knowe the trueth, and the trueth shal make you fre.

²¹ and therfore make we prouision for honest thinges, not onely before the LORDE, but also before men.

¹ Better is the poore that lyueth godly, the the blasphemer that is but a foole.

²² The LORDE abhorreth disceatfull lippes, but they that laboure for treuth, please him.