Thematic Bible: Vices
Thematic Bible
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
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Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
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It is bad, it is bad, the buyer says; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.
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Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
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Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!
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Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
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Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!
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Better is a little with righteousness than a great number of fruits with injustice.
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He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.
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He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
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Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.
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Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Extortion
to turn aside the poor from right judgment and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people that widows may be their prey and that they may rob the fatherless!
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In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.
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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
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But as the same slave was leaving, he found one of his fellowslaves who owed him a hundred denarius, and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what thou owest.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup or of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and incontinence.
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And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
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yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters, for then ye would need to go out of the world.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Examples of
And Jezebel, his wife, said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise and eat bread and let thy heart be merry; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth of Jezreel.
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And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's slaves had violently taken away.
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And the pastors of Gerar strove with Isaac's pastors, saying, The water is ours; therefore he called the name of the well Esek, because they strove with him.
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Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
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Israel has sinned and has even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; for they have even taken of the anathema and have also stolen and lied also, and they have even put it in their own vessels.
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And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were stolen from thee, about which thou didst curse in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
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And the five men that went to spy out the land went up and went in there and took the graven image and the ephod, and the teraphim and the molten image while the priest stood in the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men that were armed with weapons of war.
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Vices » Found in business » Breach of trust
If a person commits a sin, a trespass against the LORD, and denies unto his neighbour that which was delivered unto him to keep or left in his hand, or in a thing stolen, or has slandered his neighbour;
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Do not look upon me because I am dark because the sun has looked upon me; my mother's sons were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but I have not kept my own vineyard.
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Thou hast taken likewise the vessels of thy beauty of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee and made to thyself images of men and didst commit whoredom with them
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And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
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Vices » Dishonesty » Of children
Then he went up from there unto Bethel, and as he was going up by the way, the young men of the city came forth and mocked him, saying, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
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Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.
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Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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And the people shall do violence, one against another, and each one against his neighbour; the child shall rise up against the ancient and the base against the honourable.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Fraud
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him. Do not detain the wages of the work of the hired man in thy house until the morning.
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Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
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But ye do wrong and defraud and do this to your brothers.
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Related Topics
- Abominations
- Abominations, To God
- Accuracy
- Balances, Dishonest Use
- Balances, For Business
- Business Ethics
- Buying and selling
- Cheating
- Commerce
- Covenant breakers
- Coveting
- Deceit, Practice Of
- Deception, Forbidden By God
- Dishonesty
- Dishonesty Condemned
- Dishonesty, Examples Of
- Dishonesty, Kinds Of
- Disrespect For Old Age
- Do Not Steal
- Employers
- Extortion
- Extortion, Examples Of
- Fraud
- Grasping
- Greed
- Greed, Condemnation Of
- Helping The Poor
- Hiring
- Immaturity
- Injustice
- Injustice, Examples Of
- Injustice, Nature And Source Of
- Interest
- Just Weights
- Manipulation
- Markets
- Masters
- Money, Stewardship Of
- Not Helping The Poor
- Oppression, Nature Of
- Oppressors
- Outcry
- Poor, Oppression Of
- Poverty, Causes Of
- Profits
- Rich, The
- Riches, Dangers Of
- Riches, Ungodly Use Of
- Saving Money
- Servants, Bad
- Servants, Working Conditions Of
- Serving Individuals
- Settling Accounts
- Social duties
- Stealing
- Trade
- Treasure
- Trustworthiness
- Under The Ban
- Unjust Gain
- Wages
- Weights And Measures, Laws
- Work, And The Fall
- Balance
- Cheaters
- Oppression
- Taxes
- Weight