Integrity or Dishonesty

What is integrity?
Doing the right thing even when nobody's looking.
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
The state of being unimpaired; soundness.
The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.

Integrity is a big subject because it speaks of our daily dealings of our lives.

Someone asked me some time ago... what is best to illustrate the word integrity?
Being a math graduate, I said, "For me, the word integrity is the Number INTEGER."

What is an integer? A definite whole number!
A definite whole number is definite, whole!
Not half;
Not with decimal of something....
but a whole number!

Can our lives be an Integer in relating to Integrity?
Meaning no lies, no cheating, no bending, no compromise, no half-hearted, no half tank (as the chinese puts it) ?

Someone says, "Integrity is what you do when you are out of town and nobody's watching."
That's very true!

Integrity...
- speaks honestly
- true to self
- returns the right change
- returns the extra change
- admitting wrong when you are wrong
- do what is right when no one is watching
- keeping the word
- not lying to others
- and not lying to self
- in your thoughts
- in your words
- in your actions
= action + beliefs + values

Prov 10:9
He who walks with integrity walks securely, But he who perverts his ways will become known.

Prov 11:3
The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.

Prov 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrityThan one who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Prov 20:7
The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.