He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, He who walks with integrityThe phrase "walks with integrity" is derived from the Hebrew word "תָּמִים" (tamim), which means complete, whole, or blameless. In the biblical context, integrity is not merely about honesty but encompasses a life lived in accordance with God's laws and principles. It implies a consistency between one's beliefs and actions. Historically, integrity was a valued trait in ancient Israel, as it reflected one's commitment to the covenant with God. Walking with integrity suggests a daily, ongoing journey of faithfulness and moral uprightness, aligning one's life with God's will. and practices righteousness
The term "practices righteousness" comes from the Hebrew "צְדָקָה" (tsedaqah), which refers to justice, rightness, or righteousness. In the biblical sense, righteousness is not just about personal morality but also about social justice and fairness. It involves actively doing what is right in the eyes of God, which includes caring for the poor, the widow, and the orphan. This phrase emphasizes that righteousness is not passive but requires deliberate action and practice. It is a call to live out one's faith through deeds that reflect God's character and commandments. and speaks the truth from his heart
The phrase "speaks the truth from his heart" highlights the importance of sincerity and authenticity in communication. The Hebrew word for truth, "אֱמֶת" (emet), signifies reliability and faithfulness. Speaking truth from the heart implies that one's words are not just superficially honest but are deeply rooted in one's inner convictions and beliefs. In the ancient Near Eastern context, the heart was considered the center of thought and will, not just emotion. Therefore, this phrase calls for a congruence between one's inner life and outward expression, ensuring that truthfulness is a core aspect of one's character. Persons / Places / Events 1. DavidThe author of Psalm 15, King David, is traditionally understood to have written this psalm as a reflection on the qualities of those who may dwell in the presence of God. 2. ZionWhile not mentioned directly in verse 2, the context of Psalm 15 is about dwelling in God's holy hill, which refers to Zion, the spiritual and physical center of worship for Israel. 3. The Righteous ManThe individual described in this verse is characterized by integrity, righteousness, and truthfulness, serving as a model for believers. Teaching Points Integrity as a LifestyleWalking with integrity involves consistent, honest, and upright behavior in all areas of life. It is not just about actions but also about the condition of the heart. Practicing RighteousnessRighteousness is not merely a status but an active pursuit. Believers are called to live out their faith through righteous deeds, reflecting God's character. Truthfulness from the HeartSpeaking truth from the heart means that honesty is not just external but internal. It requires a heart transformed by God, where truth naturally flows from one's innermost being. The Presence of GodThe qualities described in Psalm 15:2 are prerequisites for dwelling in God's presence. This verse challenges believers to examine their lives and align them with God's standards. The Role of the Holy SpiritBelievers are empowered by the Holy Spirit to live lives of integrity, righteousness, and truth. It is through His guidance and strength that we can fulfill these high standards. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the concept of "walking with integrity" challenge your daily life and decisions? 2. In what ways can you actively practice righteousness in your community or workplace? 3. Reflect on a time when speaking the truth from your heart was difficult. How did you handle it, and what did you learn? 4. How do the qualities described in Psalm 15:2 relate to the fruit of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23? 5. What steps can you take to ensure that your heart is aligned with God's truth, enabling you to speak truthfully and live righteously? Connections to Other Scriptures Psalm 24:3-4This passage similarly asks who may ascend the hill of the Lord and describes the qualities of those who are pure in heart and clean in hands, echoing the themes of integrity and righteousness. Proverbs 12:22This verse highlights the importance of truthfulness, stating that lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are His delight. Ephesians 4:25Paul instructs believers to put away falsehood and speak truthfully to their neighbors, reinforcing the call to truthfulness found in Psalm 15:2. 1 John 3:7This verse emphasizes that those who practice righteousness are righteous, just as Christ is righteous, aligning with the call to practice righteousness in Psalm 15:2. | A Mark of Zion Citizenship | Joseph Parker, D. D. | Psalm 15:2 | | Allied Virtues | | Psalm 15:2 | | Life a Walk | G. Downame. | Psalm 15:2 | | On Truth | J. Hewlett, B. D. | Psalm 15:2 | | Practical Piety | | Psalm 15:2 | | Righteousness in Character | J. H. Jowett, M. A. | Psalm 15:2 | | Speech Spoilt by the Underlying Evil of a Corrupt Heart | J. R. Miller. | Psalm 15:2 | | The Citizen of Zion a Speaker of Truth in His Heart | T. Boston, D. D. | Psalm 15:2 | | The Citizen of Zion a Worker of Righteousness | T. Boston, D. D. | Psalm 15:2 | | The Citizen of Zion an Upright Walker | T. Boston, D. D. | Psalm 15:2 | | The God-Approved Man | J. J. Stewart Perowne, B. D. | Psalm 15:2 | | The Marks of the Saints | G. Downame. | Psalm 15:2 | | The Marks of the Saints | R. Turnbull. | Psalm 15:2 | | The Model Church Member | J. O. Keen, D. D. | Psalm 15:2 | | The Transcendent Importance of Social Morality | Homilist | Psalm 15:2 | | Truth in the Heart | J. H. Jowett, M. A. | Psalm 15:2 | | Uprightness of Character | J. H. Jowett, M. A. | Psalm 15:2 | | What Uprightness Is | G. Downame. | Psalm 15:2 | | A Life Without Reproach | W. Forsyth | Psalm 15:1-5 | | A Question and an Answer | W. Boyd Carpenter, D. D. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | An Ideal Worshipper | A. Maclaren, D. D. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | Dwelling on the Holy Hill | G. Downame. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | Earth as Seen from the Holy Hill of Communion with God | G. Downame. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | Practical Christianity | Dean Farrar. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | The Church Militant | R. Turnbull. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | The Citizen of Zion Described | T. Boston, D. D. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | The Essentials of a Spiritual Religion | C. Short | Psalm 15:1-5 | | The Good Citizen | F. D. Maurice, M. A. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | The Man in Undisturbed Rest | C. Clemance | Psalm 15:1-5 | | The Soul of Man Turned Towards Heaven | A. T. Pierson, D. D. | Psalm 15:1-5 | | Who Shall Abide with God | R. Horsfall. | Psalm 15:1-5 |
People David, PsalmistPlaces JerusalemTopics Blameless, Blamelessly, Goes, Heart, Integrity, Righteous, Righteousness, Saying, Speaketh, Speaking, Speaks, Truth, Uprightly, Walketh, Walking, Walks, Worketh, Working, WorksDictionary of Bible Themes Psalm 15:2 5017 heart, renewal
5197 walking Psalm 15:1-2 8275 honesty Psalm 15:1-5 1461 truth, nature of
8158 righteousness, of believers
8278 innocence, teaching on Psalm 15:2-3 5549 speech, positive Library Question of the Division of Life into the Active and the Contemplative
I. May Life be fittingly divided into the Active and the Contemplative? S. Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum, I., iv. 8 " Tractatus, cxxiv. 5, in Joannem II. Is this division of Life into the Active and the Contemplative a sufficient one? S. Augustine, Of the Trinity, I., viii. 17 I May Life be fittingly divided into the Active and the Contemplative? S. Gregory the Great says[291]: "There are two kinds of lives in which Almighty God instructs us by His Sacred Word--namely, the active and …
St. Thomas Aquinas—On Prayer and The Contemplative LifePerceivest Thou not How Much this Reasoning Aideth the Very Persons whom as Great...
2. Perceivest thou not how much this reasoning aideth the very persons whom as great game we make ado to catch by our lies? For, as thyself hast shown, this is the sentiment of the Priscillianists to prove which, they apply testimonies from the Scriptures exhorting their followers to lie, as though by the examples of Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Angels; not hesitating to add even the Lord Christ Himself; and deeming that they cannot otherwise prove their falsehood truthful, unless they pronounce …
St. Augustine—Against Lying Wherefore, that which is Written, "Who Speaketh the Truth in his Heart...
14. Wherefore, that which is written, "Who speaketh the truth in his heart," [2400] is not so to be taken, as if, truth being retained in the heart, in the mouth one may speak a lie. But the reason why it is said, is, because it is possible that a man may speak with his mouth a truth which profiteth him nothing, if he hold it not in his heart, that is, if what he speaketh, himself believe not; as the heretics, and, above all, these same Priscillianists do, when they do, not indeed believe the catholic …
St. Augustine—Against Lying Thus Then what is Written, "The Mouth that Lieth...
31. Thus then what is written, "The mouth that lieth, slayeth the soul;" [2351] of what mouth it speaketh, is the question. For in general when the Scripture speaks of the mouth, it signifies the very seat of our conception [2352] in the heart, where is approved and decreed whatever also by the voice, when we speak the truth, is uttered: so that he lieth with the heart who approveth a lie; yet that man may possibly not lie with the heart, who uttereth other than is in his mind, in such sort that …
St. Augustine—On Lying The Folly of Slander. Part 1.
"He that uttereth slander is a fool."--Prov. x. 18. General declamations against vice and sin are indeed excellently useful, as rousing men to consider and look about them: but they do often want effect, because they only raise confused apprehensions of things, and indeterminate propensions to action; which usually, before men thoroughly perceive or resolve what they should practise, do decay and vanish. As he that cries out "Fire!" doth stir up people, and inspireth them with a kind of hovering …
Isaac Barrow—Sermons on Evil-Speaking, by Isaac Barrow Of Evil-Speaking in General.
"To speak evil of no man."--Titus iii. 2. These words do imply a double duty; one incumbent on teachers, another on the people who are to be instructed by them. The teacher's duty appeareth from reflecting on the words of the context, which govern these, and make them up an entire sentence: put them in mind, or, rub up their memory to do thus. It is St. Paul's injunction to Titus, a bishop and pastor of the Church, that he should admonish the people committed to his care and instruction, …
Isaac Barrow—Sermons on Evil-Speaking, by Isaac Barrow Thou Shalt not Bear False Witness against Thy Neighbor.
This Commandment seems small, and yet is so great, that he who would rightly keep it must risk and imperil life and limb, goods and honor, friends and all that he has; and yet it includes no more than the work of that small member, the tongue, and is called in German Wahrheit sagen, "telling the truth" and, where there is need, gainsaying lies; so that it forbids many evil works of the tongue. First: those which are committed by speaking, and those which are committed by keeping silent. By speaking, …
Dr. Martin Luther—A Treatise on Good Works Life of a Christian Man. Scriptural Arguments Exhorting to It.
This first chapter consists of two parts,--I. Connection between this treatise on the Christian Life and the doctrine of Regeneration and Repentance. Arrangement of the treatise, sec. 1-3. II. Extremes to be avoided; 1. False Christians denying Christ by their works condemned, sec. 4. 2. Christians should not despair, though they have not attained perfection, provided they make daily progress in piety and righteousness. 1. WE have said that the object of regeneration is to bring the life of believers …
Archpriest John Iliytch Sergieff—On the Christian Life How to Dwell in the Fire of God
'Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15. He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil.'--ISAIAH xxxiii. 14, 15. 'He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God'--1 JOHN iv. 16. I have put these two verses together because, striking as is at first sight the …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The King --Continued.
The years thus well begun are, in the historical books, characterized mainly by three events, namely, the bringing up of the ark to the newly won city of David, Nathan's prophecy of the perpetual dominion of his house, and his victories over the surrounding nations. These three hinges of the narrative are all abundantly illustrated in the psalms. As to the first, we have relics of the joyful ceremonial connected with it in two psalms, the fifteenth and twenty-fourth, which are singularly alike not …
Alexander Maclaren—The Life of David The Ninth Commandment
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.' Exod 20: 16. THE tongue which at first was made to be an organ of God's praise, is now become an instrument of unrighteousness. This commandment binds the tongue to its good behaviour. God has set two natural fences to keep in the tongue, the teeth and lips; and this commandment is a third fence set about it, that it should not break forth into evil. It has a prohibitory and a mandatory part: the first is set down in plain words, the other …
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments Question Lxxxi of the virtue of Religion
I. Does the Virtue of Religion Direct a Man To God Alone? S. Augustine, sermon, cccxxxiv. 3 " on Psalm lxxvi. 32 sermon, cccxi. 14-15 II. Is Religion a Virtue? III. Is Religion One Virtue? IV. Is Religion a Special Virtue Distinct From Others? V. Is Religion One of the Theological Virtues? VI. Is Religion To Be Preferred To the Other Moral Virtues? VII. Has Religion, Or Latria, Any External Acts? S. Augustine, of Care for the Dead, V. VIII. Is Religion the Same As Sanctity? Cardinal Cajetan, …
St. Thomas Aquinas—On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Rules to be Observed in Singing of Psalms.
1. Beware of singing divine psalms for an ordinary recreation, as do men of impure spirits, who sing holy psalms intermingled with profane ballads: They are God's word: take them not in thy mouth in vain. 2. Remember to sing David's psalms with David's spirit (Matt. xxii. 43.) 3. Practise St. Paul's rule--"I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing with the understanding also." (1 Cor. xiv. 15.) 4. As you sing uncover your heads (1 Cor. xi. 4), and behave yourselves in comely reverence as in the …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety Election Confirmed by the Calling of God. The Reprobate Bring Upon Themselves the Righteous Destruction to which they are Doomed.
1. The election of God is secret, but is manifested by effectual calling. The nature of this effectual calling. How election and effectual calling are founded on the free mercy of God. A cavil of certain expositors refuted by the words of Augustine. An exception disposed of. 2. Calling proved to be free, 1. By its nature and the mode in which it is dispensed. 2. By the word of God. 3. By the calling of Abraham, the father of the faithful. 4. By the testimony of John. 5. By the example of those who …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion Psalms
The piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. It constitutes the response of the Church to the divine demands of prophecy, and, in a less degree, of law; or, rather, it expresses those emotions and aspirations of the universal heart which lie deeper than any formal demand. It is the speech of the soul face to face with God. Its words are as simple and unaffected as human words can be, for it is the genius …
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