18 Bible Verses about Cheating
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And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, When a soul shall sin and cover a transgression against Jehovah, and lie against his neighbor in a deposit, or in trust of the hand, or in robbery, or oppressing his neighbor; Or he found the lost thing, and lied concerning it, and swore upon falsehood; upon one of all which the man will do, for sinning in them.read more.
And it was when he shall sin and being guilty, and he turned back the robbery which he robbed, or the oppression which he oppressed, or the deposit which was deposited with him, or the lost thing which he found, Or from all which he shall swear upon it for falsehood; and he recompensed it in its head, and he shall add its fifth part upon it, and he shall give it to whom it is to him, in the day of his trespass.
Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded? But ye treat ill, and defraud, and that the brethren.
Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified.
And ye yourselves knew that with all my strength I served, your father, And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten parts; and God gave him not to do evil by me. If thus he will say, The speckled shall be thy hire; and all the sheep shall bring forth speckled: and if thus he will say, The banded shall be thy hire, and all the sheep will bring forth white-footed.read more.
And God will take away the cattle of your father and will give them to me.
Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small. There shall not be to thee in thy house an ephah and an ephah, great and small A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and justread more.
For an abomination are all doing these things, all doing evil.
Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress. And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.
Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?
And Zaccheus having stood, said to the Lord, Behold, the half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have made any false accusation against any one, I give back fourfold.
And ye profaning it in your saying, The table of Jehovah it being polluted; and its fruit, its food was despised. And ye said, Behold, what a weariness! and ye puffed at it, said Jehovah of armies; and ye brought the spoiled and the lame, and the sick; and ye brought the gift: shall I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah. And cursed he deceiving, and there is in his flock a male, and he vowed and sacrificed a corrupt thing to Jehovah: for I am a great king, said Jehovah of armies, and my name terrible among the nations.
Thou shalt not remove the boundary of thy neighbor which they at first set bounds in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee to inherit it.
Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you. And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand.
Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight
Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit? To buy the poor with silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will sell the refuse of the grain.
And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent.
Receive us; we injured none, we corrupted none, we took advantage of none.