9 Bible Verses about Dishonesty Condemned
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small:
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone, then he boasteth.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by them that seek death.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Woe to him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and 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
