Without Guile; Honesty; Integrity

Without Guile; Honesty; Integrity: GHI

2 Corinthians 8:21

Command:

3 of 10 Commandments:                  Exodus 20:15-17

Deal honestly, be one:                     D&C 51:9

In our thoughts:                                 Philippians 4:8

Wo be to the dishonest:                    2 Nephi 15:20

Examples:

Stripling Warriors:                             Alma 53:20

Hyrum Smith:                                    D&C 124:15

Spirit:                                                Jacob 4:13

Pau:                                                  2 Corinthians 4:2

Job:                                                   Job 27:5 & 2:3

Why:

Personal Peace:                               James 1:8

Blessed man w/out guile:                 Psalms 32:2

Children blessed:                              Proverbs 20:7

Cannot Serve two masters:              Luke 16:13

God Himself is full of integrity:         Alma 7:20

Satan in Father of lies:                     Moses 4:4

No virtues in the perfection we strive for are more important than integrity and honesty.  Let us then be complete, unbroken, pure, and sincere,…”

Integrity in man should bring inner peace, sureness of purpose, and security in action.  Lack of it brings the reverse: disunity, fear, sorrow, unsureness.             

 President Spencer W. Kimball Chapter 12

One of the greatest accomplishments of our lives is to promote and honest, earnest integrity within ourselves.  This means that we become spiritually sound, intellectually sincere, morally honest, and always personally responsible to God.  Integrity is that golden key which will unlock the door to almost any success.

                President Howard W. Hunter Chapter 18

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.  To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.  A person without guile is a person if innocence, honest intent, and pure motives, whose life reflects the simple practice of conforming his daily actions to principles of integrity.

Joseph B Wirthlin, April 1988 General Conference

Our honest effort to improve our integrity allows God to increase our power to do it. I promise you, as you read your scriptures and say your prayers—that’s the magic formula—the Holy Ghost will help you in your noble quest to strengthen and develop your integrity.

Carol B. Thompson April 2000 General Conference

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts. Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

                Joseph B Wirhlin, April 1990 General Conference