Bible verses about "trustworthiness" | Living_Oracles

⁶ Jesus answered, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father, but by me.

³⁵ If the law styled them gods, to whom the word of God was addressed, and if the language of scripture in unexceptionable;

¹ Wherefore, brethren, I beseech you, by the tender mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind; that you may approve the will of God, which is good, and acceptable, and perfect. ³ Also, by the favor which is given to me, I charge every one of you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think modestly, as God has distributed to every one a portion of his faith. ⁴ For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office; ⁵ so we, the many, are one body under Christ, and individually members of one another. ⁶ Having, then, gifts, differing according to the favor which is given to us-if prophecy act according to the measure of faith- ⁷ if a ministerial office, in that office-if one is a teacher, in teaching- ⁸ and the exhorter, in exhortation. Let him who distributes act with disinterestedness-him that presides, with assiduity-him that shows mercy, with cheerfulness. ⁹ Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor the evil-adhere closely to the good. ¹⁰ In brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate to one another-in honor, prefer one another. ¹¹ In business, be not slothful. Be fervent in spirit- constant in serving the Lord. ¹² Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly persevering in prayer. ¹³ Communicate to the necessities of the saints. Follow hospitality to strangers. ¹⁴ Bless them who persecute you-bless, and curse not. ¹⁵ Rejoice with them who rejoice, and weep with them who weep. ¹⁶ Be of the same disposition toward one another. Do not care for high things; but accommodate yourselves to those which are humble. Be not wise in your own conceits. ¹⁷ To no one return evil for evil. Seek after things honorable in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ What relates to you is, live in peace with all men, if possible. ¹⁹ Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." ²⁰ Therefore, if your enemy hunger, give him food: if he thirst, give him drink: for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head. ²¹ Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

¹⁶ For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his grandeur;

¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love, we may all grow into him, who is the Head, even Christ; ¹⁶ from whom, the whole body, fitly joined together, and compacted by the service of every joint, according to the energy, in the proportion of each particular part, effects the increase of the body, for the edification of itself in love.

¹⁵ But by the good soil are meant those, who, having heard the word, retain it in a good and honest heart, and persevere in bringing forth fruit.

⁴³ Why do you not understand my language? It is because you can not bear my doctrine. ⁴⁴ The devil is your father, and the desires of your father you will gratify: he was a manslayer from the beginning; he swerved from the truth, because there was no veracity in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks suitably to his character; for he is a liar, and the father of lying. ⁴⁵ As for me, because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Who of you convicts me of falsehood? And if I speak truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God, regards God's words. You regard them not, because you are not of God.

¹⁷ To no one return evil for evil. Seek after things honorable in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ What relates to you is, live in peace with all men, if possible. ¹⁹ Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." ²⁰ Therefore, if your enemy hunger, give him food: if he thirst, give him drink: for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head. ²¹ Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

¹⁸ But that which proceeds out of the mouth, issues from the heart, and so pollutes the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed malicious contrivances, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies. ²⁰ These are the things which pollute the man; but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not the man.

¹⁷ Consecrate them by the truth; thy word is the truth.

⁹ Therefore, I say to you, with the deceitful riches procure to yourself friends, who, after your discharge, may receive you into the eternal mansion. ¹⁰ Whoso is faithful in little is faithful also in much: and whoso is unjust in little, is unjust also in much. ¹¹ If, therefore, you have not been honest in the deceitful, who will entrust you with the true riches? ¹² And if you have been unfaithful managers for another, who will give you anything to manage for yourselves? ¹³ A servant can not serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love the other; or, at least, will attend one, and neglect the other. You can not serve God and mammon. ¹⁴ When the Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things, they ridiculed him. ¹⁵ But he said to them, As for you, you make yourselves pass upon men for righteous, but God knows your hearts; for that which is admired of men is abhorred of God.

⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man, with his practices; ¹⁰ and having put on the new, who is renewed by knowledge, after the image of him, who created him;-