Proverbs and Integrity

Proverbs 4:23-27 “Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life. Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly, and don’t let your lips talk deviously. Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead. Carefully consider the path for your feet, and all your ways will be established. Don’t turn to the right or to the left; keep your feet away from evil.”

Proverbs 10:9 “The one who lives with integrity lives securely, but whoever perverts his ways will be found out.”

Proverbs 11:3 “The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.”

Proverbs 12:22 “Lying lips are detestable to the Lord, but faithful people are his delight.”

Proverbs 23:6-7 “Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, and don’t desire his choice food, for it’s like someone calculating inwardly. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.”

Proverbs 26:4-5 “Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness or you’ll be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his foolishness or he’ll become wise in his own eyes.”

Proverbs 26:23-28 “Smooth lips with an evil heart are like glaze on an earthen vessel. A hateful person disguises himself with his speech and harbors deceit within. When he speaks graciously, don’t believe him, for there are seven detestable things in his heart. Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his evil will be revealed in the assembly. The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone— it will come back on him. A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.”

Proverbs 28:6 “Better the poor person who lives with integrity than the rich one who distorts right and wrong.”