Integrity
INTEG'RITY, noun [Latin integritas, from integer.]
1. Wholeness; entireness; unbroken state. The constitution of the U.States guaranties to each state the integrity of its territories. The contracting parties guarantied the integrity of the empire.
2. The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. integritycomprehends the whole moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfers of property, and agencies for others.
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of eastern magnificence and the splendor of conquest are odious as well as perishable.
3. Purity; genuine, unadulterated, unimpaired state; as the integrity of language.
SCRIPTURES:
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mineintegrity from me.
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mineintegrity.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
¶Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, inintegrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
And again, verily I say unto you, blessed is my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him because of the integrity of his heart, and because he loveth that which is right before me, saith the Lord
PERSONAL DEFINITION:
I think that when you walk in Integrity, you are keeping your standards and you love what is right. You are honest and virtuous and you share the light of Christ as you serve with a smile. =)
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