Honesty

Published on 9 June 2024 at 10:27

Good morning,

Proverbs 10:9: "The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out"

Proverbs 12:19: "Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment"

Proverbs 12:22: "The Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in men who are truthful"

Zechariah 8:16-17: "These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgements that are true and make for peace; do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things hate, declares the LORD"

Ephesians 4:25

"Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another"

Colossians 3:9

"Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices"

I found over 90 verses on honesty in the Bible. I'm sure there's more. We as Christians know that we're not supposed to lie.

Exodus 20:16

[16]Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

This is the 9th commandment in the 10 commandments. So, if we as His children know this, why are there still fellow Christians who would rather lie? There is NO such thing as a little/white lie or a big lie! Being false is being false! Dishonesty sews webs of deceit. Once you start you have to keep telling lies to cover the previous ones. Dishonesty also causes those around you not to trust you. It causes hurt and pain to both parties. Not being honest will only bring about distrust, destruction and consequences. Why not choose "the high road" ,so to speak, instead of wallering in the low mucky road? Think about it and pray. Ask God to help you leave the old you behind and start out with redemption. #honesty #lies #firstthingsfirst #bethperry #sharingthegospelofchrist sharing-the-gospel-of-christ.com

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Salvation Safety Service

14 Mar 2024 12:43

John 17:1-26[1]These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:[2]As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.[3]And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.[4]I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.[5]And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.[6]I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.[7]Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.[8]For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.[9]I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.[10]And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.[11]And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.[12]While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.[13]And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.[14]I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[15]I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.[16]They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[17]Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.[18]As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.[19]And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.[20]Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;[21]That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.[22]And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:[23]I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.[24]Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.[25]O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.[26]And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.