9 Bible Verses about Dishonesty Condemned
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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.
It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work;
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
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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
