18 Bible Verses about Deception, Forbidden By God
Most Relevant Verses
False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.
Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.
Do not give false witness against your neighbour;
The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.
A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things. Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?
Bible Theasaurus
- Forbidden (29 instances)
