18 Bible Verses about Deception, Forbidden By God
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An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;
'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
And cursed is a deceiver, who hath in his drove a male, And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, For a great king am I, said Jehovah of Hosts, And My name is revered among nations!
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness; so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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