Honesty
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Base your life on the highest truth of divine leading, coordinating truth, beauty, and goodness through wisdom, worship, faith, and love. 110:3.7
It is a mistake to always speak one's mind without spiritual discernment and discretion, as sincerity must be modulated for the intellectual and spiritual well-being of others. 180:5.5 181:2.21
Early traders' honesty extended only to their own tribes, as they deemed it permissible to cheat strangers. 69:4.3
Face the facts of life honestly, as Jesus instructed, and be a real man determined to live courageously and intelligently. 133:4.11 193:4.9
Man must grow up in a world of error and falsehood, guided by a love of truth and the willingness to follow it regardless of conclusions. 3:5.10 103:7.5
The fruits of the spirit include loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace. 193:2.2
Jesus adopted the title “the Son of Man” after finding the truth in the partially accredited Book of Enoch, embracing it regardless of its apparent source. 126:3.8
Property honesty originally rested on the belief that personal belongings were imbued with the owner's essence, eliminating the need for policing and promoting unity within the group. 69:9.9
Truth makes man free, as the bestowal Son lives and dies for the spiritual uplift of mortal races, establishing a new and living way of salvation and human liberty through sincere recognition of truth. 52:5.4 101:6.10 141:7.6 143:1.4 162:7.2 194:2.2 194:3.5
Truth must strike in heart with living roots, for those who hear the gospel superficially will not withstand tribulation and persecution. 151:2.2 177:5.2
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- By choosing the Divine 110:3.7 — Is 55:1-3; Mt 5:6; Mt 6:33; Lk 12:31.
- Born of the Spirit 193:2.2 — Jn 3:3-7.
- Bread of life 193:2.2 — Jn 6:33-35,48; Jn 6:51,58. *Water of life*: Jn 7:38.
- Hunger and thirst for (God) 193:2.2 — Mt 5:6.
- Father sent me 193:2.2 — Jn 5:23,30,36-37; Jn 6:44,57; Jn 8:16-18,29,42; Jn 10:36; Jn 12:49; Jn 17:21,25; Jn 20:21.
- Great Commission 193:2.2 — Mt 24:14; Mt 28:19-20a; Mk 13:10; Mk 16:15; Lk 24:47; Jn 17:18; Acts 1:8b.
- Fruits of the spirit 193:2.2 — Ga 5:22-23; Eph 5:9.
- Faith without works is dead 193:2.2 — Jm 2:17.
- Required to bear good fruit 193:2.2 — Mt 3:10; Mt 7:16-20; Mt 12:33; Lk 3:9; Lk 6:43-44; Lk 13:6-9; Jn 15:7-8,16.
- Enter kingdom as child 193:2.2 — Mt 18:2-5; Mt 19:13-14; Mk 9:36-37; Mk 10:13-15; Lk 9:46-48; Lk 18:16-17.
- But grow up in spirit 193:2.2 — Eph 4:14-15; 1 P 2:2; 2 P 3:18.
- My peace I leave 193:2.2 — Jn 14:27.
- New and living way 52:5.4 — Jn 14:6; Heb 10:20.
- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free 101:6.10 — Jn 8:32.
- Truth shall make you free 141:7.6 — Jn 8:32.
- Jesus was truth made manifest 141:7.6 — Jn 1:14.
- Jesus came to do Father's will 143:1.4 — Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Jn 4:34; Jn 5:30; Jn 6:38-40; Jn 15:10; Jn 17:4. *Loving restraint of child*: Heb 12:5-11. *God rules by love*: Mt 5:43-48; Mt 22:37-40; Mk 12:29-33; Lk 10:27; Jn 3:16; Jn 13:34-35; Jn 14:21-23; Jn 15:9-13,17; Jn 16:27; Jn 17:22-23; Ro 5:8; 1 Co 13:1-8; 2 Co 13:11; Tit 3:4; 1 Jn 3:1; 1 Jn 4:7-19.
- To know truth makes you free 162:7.2 — Jn 8:31b-36.
- Believers lonely without new heart 194:2.2 — Ezk 11:19; Ezk 36:26-27.
- Spirit liberty 194:3.5 — 2 Co 3:17.
- Peter's interpretation 151:2.2 — Mt 13:18-23; Mk 4:14-20; Lk 8:11-15.