Zechariah 8:16

New American Bible - revised edition

These then are the things you must do: Speak the truth to one another; judge with honesty and complete justice in your gates.

Cross References

Psalm 15:2

Whoever walks without blame, doing what is right, speaking truth from the heart;

Psalm 34:15

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Proverbs 12:17

Whoever speaks honestly testifies truly, but the deceitful make lying witnesses.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment.

Isaiah 9:7

The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it falls upon Israel;

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 18:8

if he does not lend at interest or exact usury; if he refrains from evildoing and makes a fair judgment between two opponents;

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Leviticus 19:11

You shall not steal. You shall not deceive or speak falsely to one another.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:24

Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.

Micah 6:12

You whose wealthy are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their mouths!

Micah 6:8

You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.

Zephaniah 3:13

the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; Nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue; They shall pasture and lie down with none to disturb them.

Zechariah 7:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Judge with true justice, and show kindness and compassion toward each other.

Zechariah 8:19

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast days of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become occasions of joy and gladness, and happy festivals for the house of Judah. So love faithfulness and peace!

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem will be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Ephesians 4:17

So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

not to take advantage of or exploit a brother in this matter, for the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you before and solemnly affirmed.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” The New Jerusalem.