18 Bible Verses about Deception, Forbidden By God
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Lying lips are hateful to Jehovah, but those who deal truly are His delight.
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips.
He who breathes truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and one speaking lies shall perish.
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures and weights, or in quantity.
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small.
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.
But cursed be a deceiver; and there is in his flock a male, yet he vows it, but sacrifices to Jehovah a blemished one. For I am a great king, says Jehovah of Hosts, and My name is feared among the nations.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also appear righteous to men outwardly, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Therefore the one teaching another, do you not teach yourself? The one preaching not to steal, do you steal?
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