18 Bible Verses about Deception, Forbidden By God
Most Relevant Verses
Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
"Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
"But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?
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