Be Honest

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

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

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

not of works, that no one would boast.

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

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. — read the full passage →

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

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

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in 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. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ — read the full passage →

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

This is how 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 with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. — read the full passage →

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. — read the full passage →

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

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

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

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

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

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, 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. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

Abstain from every form of evil.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

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

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →