Thematic Bible: Vices
Thematic Bible
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
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Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
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"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
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You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
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Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
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Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
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Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
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Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
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Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
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He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
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Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
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Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Extortion
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
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Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
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"But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
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He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you."
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yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Examples of
Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."
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Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
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Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
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He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." His mother said, "Blessed be my son of Yahweh."
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The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
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Vices » Found in business » Breach of trust
"If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
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Don't stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.
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You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;
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If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
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Vices » Dishonesty » Of children
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"
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Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
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On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
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The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Fraud
"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
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You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"
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No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against 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