What is the advantage of being honest?

Question

If there IS one....?

Answer 1

It gives you the warm fuzzies.

Answer 2

The only advantage to being honest is the chance of being discovered when you're not. It's also advantageous to be honest if you have a guilty conscious but, by the way the question is phrased, I doubt that is to your concern.

Answer 3

Rewards and Benefits of honesty

Fairness and straightforwardness, truthful dealings with others, promote honesty. A climate of trust and confidence thus develops, leading to healthy attitudes and relationships. Honesty also provides an atmosphere for confident living, free of time- and energy-consuming defensiveness bred by suspicions, doubts, and fears about others.-Compare Isaiah 35:8-10.

Honesty contributes to our having a clean conscience, which is essential if we are acceptably to "render sacred service to the living God." (Hebrews 9:14; 1 Timothy 1:19) It gives peace of mind, leading to a good night's sleep. You can face others without embarrassment. Being honest eliminates the gnawing fear of being caught in wrongdoing. In this way we maintain human dignity and self-respect. How could that ever be out-of-date or impractical?

Thus, there are many present rewards and benefits that will flow to us and others if we are honest persons. Yet, more than anything else, we should want to be honest not just because it is the best policy or because we are commanded to be honest but because we love our Father Jehovah. We want to maintain our precious relationship with him and have his approval. We also want to be honest because we thereby express love of neighbor. So, simply put, being a true Christian means being honest.-Matthew 22:36-39.

The psalmist says: "O Jehovah, who will be a guest in your tent? Who will reside in your holy mountain? He who is walking faultlessly and practicing righteousness and speaking the truth in his heart. . . . To his companion he has done nothing bad." (Psalm 15:1-3) If we lead honest lives as worshipers of Jehovah, then when he justly ends the present unrighteous system and when "the tent of God is with mankind," we will be among those who enjoy eternal blessings as his "guest." Then we will never be out-of-date!-Revelation 21:1-5

Answer 4

You have nothing to hide. You can walk proud. You don't have to remember what you said and who you said it to. You can say." Good morning " to the policeman on the corner without wondering if he's on to something about you.
Another big advantage is that if you're dishonest in a big way, and get caught, first you pay for it in the slammer, then it follows you around for the rest of your life.

Answer 5

Being honest is a lot easier, actually. You don't have to hide anything and people will trust you more. Becoming honest is the hard part.

Answer 6

Lots written about this in the evolutionary phsycology field. Man is a social animal and liars generally do not do as well as those who are truthful (at least most of the time). Game theory bears this out.

Answer 7

Trust

Answer 8

# John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.

Answer 9

It's one of the things which let syou sleep at night. It's also a trait which can be carried on to your kids.
It gets you respect from others,
Honesty will leave you feeling good about yourself.

Answer 10

A clear conscience

Answer 11

That's a good question