Honesty

Honesty [NAVE]

HONESTY.
Lev. 19:35, 36; Deut. 16:20; Deut. 25:13-16; Job 27:6; Psa. 7:3, 4; Psa. 15:5; Psa. 24:4; Prov. 4:25; Prov. 11:1; Prov. 12:22; Prov. 16:11; Prov. 20:10 v. 23.; Isa. 33:15, 16; Ezek. 45:10; Mark 10:19; Luke 3:12, 13; Luke 6:31 Matt. 7:12. Acts 24:16; 2 Cor. 4:1, 2; 2 Cor. 7:2; 2 Cor. 8:21; Phil. 4:8; Col. 3:22; 1 Thess. 4:11, 12; Heb. 13:18; 1 Pet. 2:12
Instances of
Jacob, returning money placed in the sacks, Gen. 43:12.
The overseers of the temple repairs, 2 Kin. 12:15; 22:4-7.
Treasurers of the temple, Neh. 13:13.
See: Integrity; Righteousness; Dishonesty.

HONEST; HONESTY [ISBE]

HONEST; HONESTY - on'-est, on'-es-ti: The word "honest" in the New Testament in the King James Version generally represents the adjective kalos, "good," "excellent," "honorable," and, with the exception of Lk 8:15, "honest and good heart," is changed in the Revised Version (British and American) into the more correct "honorable" (Rom 12:17; 2 Cor 8:21; 13:7; Phil 4:8); in 1 Pet 2:12, into "seemly.' In the American Standard Revised Version "honestly" in Heb 13:18 is rendered "honorably," and in 1 Thess 4:12 (here euschemonos) is rendered "becomingly." The noun "honesty" occurs but once in the King James Version as the translation of semnotes (1 Tim 2:2), and in the Revised Version (British and American) is more appropriately rendered "gravity."

James Orr