Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.
It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small.
Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Better is a little with righteousness than great gain without right.
He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.
He who increases his wealth by interest and unjust gain, he shall gather it for him who will pity the poor.
And behold, I have struck My palm against your unjust gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in your midst.
Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Dishonesty » Condemned
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.
It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small.
Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Lying » Vanity of getting riches by
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Lying/lies » The acquiring of wealth by lying
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Get, by vanity
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be taken away, but he who gathers by hand shall increase.
The lord seeking that which was lost » Those that seek death
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Vanity » Riches gotten by falsehood are
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.
It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small.
Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
Better is a little with righteousness than great gain without right.
He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.
He who increases his wealth by interest and unjust gain, he shall gather it for him who will pity the poor.
And behold, I have struck My palm against your unjust gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in your midst.
Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Wealth » The acquisition of treasures by lying
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.