Honestidade
A honestidade é virtude cristã fundamental. Deus é Deus de verdade e nos chama a viver com integridade, transparência e retidão em todos os nossos relacionamentos e negócios.
Integridade diante de Deus
O Senhor abomina a balança falsa, mas o peso justo é seu prazer. A integridade dos justos os guia pelos caminhos retos.
1 A deceitful scale is an abomination to Jehovah, but a perfect weight stone is His delight.3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of traitors shall destroy them.
3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of traitors shall destroy them.
9 Then you shall understand righteousness and justice and equity and every good path.
3 With Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen over sacrifice.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every mans conscience before God.
21 providing honorable things, not only before the Lord, but also before men.
Praticar a honestidade
Falai a verdade, pagai o que deveis, não negueis ao próximo o bem. A honestidade prática é testemunho do evangelho.
9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his practices,
7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are Gods ministers attending continually to this very thing.
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenue without justice.
2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Confissão e transparência
Confessai as vossas ofensas uns aos outros. Quem confessa e deixa o pecado encontra misericórdia e restauração.
13 He who covers his sins shall not prosper; but he who confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty.
12 But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your Yes, be Yes, and your No, No, so that you do not fall under condemnation.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, fair, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Coração puro
Bem-aventurados os puros de coração, porque verão a Deus. A honestidade começa no interior e se manifesta nas ações.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
7 Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret over him who prospers in his way, because of him who works out wicked devices.
5 A good man deals graciously and lends; he will guide his affairs with justice.
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
16 No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.
13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.17 He who utters truth declares righteousness, but a false witness, deceit.
28 A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates intimate friends.