18 Bible Verses about Deception, Forbidden By God
Most Relevant Verses
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.
Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the nations.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like unto whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
You therefore who teach another, can you not teach yourself? you that preach a man should not steal, do you steal?
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