40 Bible Verses about cheaters

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.

But you yourselves wrong and defraud--even your own brothers!

"Bad, bad," says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?'In your tithes and contributions.

"You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.

And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.

"If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

"You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

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

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, "That is no transgression," is a companion to a man who destroys.

An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.

You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or 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 for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?

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

"If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor

ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.

"Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.

And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold."