Integrity means to be sincere in everything. This is an ideal for us to strive towards. The Lord teaches us how to do that. In Micah 6:8 we read, “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
In The Heavenly City, A Spiritual Guidebook 155, we learn that all good and truth come from the Lord and so only the Lord has integrity. We can live fairly and with integrity only as far as we accept this gift of goodness and truth from the Lord, live by it, and don’t accept credit for it - in other words, be just, and merciful and humble before the Lord.
Even angels acknowledge that although they want to live with integrity, they are imperfect and so they continue to take part in self-examination and to repent of their evils to eternity.
As we learn in Doctrine of Life 83, none of us can from ourselves be in integrity but we can when we shun sins and follow the Lord. And, when we do that, the Lord promises us in Isaiah 1:16-18, “Wash you, put away the evil of your doings, cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek judgment. Then although your sins have been as scarlet, they shall become as white as snow; although they have been red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
(références: Arcana Coelestia 612)
