9 Bible Verses about Dishonesty Condemned
Most Relevant Verses
“You must not have two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord,
but an accurate weight is His delight.
Differing weights and varying measures—
both are detestable to the Lord.
“It’s worthless, it’s worthless!” the buyer says,
but after he is on his way, he gloats.
Making a fortune through a lying tongue
is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.
He who makes a fortune unjustly
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his days
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.
Woe for the one who builds his palace
through unrighteousness,
his upper rooms through injustice,
who makes his fellow man serve without pay
and will not give him his wages,
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Related Topics
- Abominations
- Abominations, To God
- Accuracy
- Balances, Dishonest Use
- Balances, For Business
- Business Ethics
- Buying and selling
- Cheating
- Deceit, Practice Of
- Deception, Forbidden By God
