40 Bible Verses about cheaters

but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurt me.

On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

“Bad, bad,” says the buyer,
But when he goes his way, then he boasts.

“Therefore I will give their wives to others,
Their fields to new owners;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is greedy for gain;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone practices deceit.

“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.

‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.

So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

They covet fields and then seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They rob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.

“Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
Because every brother deals craftily,
And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And he summoned each one of his master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.

For jealousy enrages a man,
And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

A just balance and scales belong to the Lord;
All the weights of the bag are His concern.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.

The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue
Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

He who robs his father or his mother
And says, “It is not a transgression,”
Is the companion of a man who destroys.

Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

“But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great King,” says the Lord of hosts, “and My name is feared among the nations.”

You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.

So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, “Was I not joking?”

I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
But a just weight is His delight.

He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself
Or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

“When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,

Destruction is in her midst;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God.

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

“Your covenant with death will be canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you become its trampling place.

Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.

Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.”