Be Honest

lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

not of works, that no man should glory.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: — read the full passage →

Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: — read the full passage →

Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. — read the full passage →

Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. — read the full passage →

So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. — read the full passage →

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lordof glory, with respect of persons.

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.

Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. — read the full passage →

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

Let love of the brethren continue. — read the full passage →

Let love of the brethren continue.

But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment; — read the full passage →

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.

abstain from every form of evil.

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things; — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; — read the full passage →

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. — read the full passage →

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: — read the full passage →

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — read the full passage →