25th Week of the Year

H O N E S T

From your Pocket to your Heart!

Defined as ... Being trustworthy with your words and your actions without deceit and with transparent motives.

“Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.”
~  Original Author Unknown  ~

“Being honest with yourself is the first step in being honest with others.”
~  Sigmund Freud  ~

“Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.”
~  Robert Brault  ~

HONESTY EXEMPLIFIED

1. Ananias & Sapphira
(Acts 4:31 - 5:1)
2. Achan
(Joshua 7)
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HONESTY
SCRIPTURALLY TAUGHT

“Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”
1 Peter 2:12

“Recompense to no man evil for evil. Prove things honest in the sight of all men.”
Romans 12:17

“For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD.”
Isaiah 32:6

“For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity ...we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.”
2 Corinthians 1:12

“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”
Ephesians 4:25