40 Bible Verses about cheaters
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But I say to you, anyone who stares at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Even so, your father has cheated me. He broke our wage agreement ten times. However, God didn't allow him to harm me.
Instead, you yourselves practice doing wrong and cheating others, and brothers at that!
"This is bad, bad," says whoever is buying but then he brags as he walks away after the sale.
Therefore, I'll give their wives to others, and their fields to new owners. Indeed, from the least important to the most important, they're all greedy for dishonest gain. From prophet to priest, they all act deceitfully.
"Will a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you ask, "How are we robbing you?' "By the tithe and the offering.
So if you had sold property to a neighbor or had acquired land from your neighbor, you are not to cheat one another.
So Jacob approached his father, who felt him and said, "It's Jacob's voice, but Esau's hands."
They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate.
"Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer.
No one is to cheat his neighbor. Instead, you are to fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.
"If anyone commits adultery with another man's wife, including when someone commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress are to die.
"So he called for each of his master's debtors. He asked the first, "How much do you owe my master?'
"You are not to oppress your neighbor or rob him. "The wages of a hired laborer are not to remain in your possession until morning.
because jealousy incites a strong man's rage, and he will show no mercy when it's time for revenge.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but later his mouth will be full of gravel.
"Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud.
Whoever steals from his father or mother but claims, "It's no sin," is a companion to someone who demolishes.
Moreover, no one who is an athlete wins a prize unless he competes according to the rules.
"Cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock, and vows to give it, but sacrifices a mutilated one to the LORD. Indeed, I am a great king," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and my name is feared among the Gentiles."
You are cursed under the curse the entire nation because you are robbing me!
A deceitful person will not sit in my house; A liar will not remain in my presence.
that's what someone is like who lies to his neighbor and then says, "I was joking, wasn't I?"
not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, greedy, robbers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
The LORD hates false scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
Whoever oppresses the poor to enrich himself and whoever gives gifts to the wealthy will yield only loss.
Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?
thieves, greedy people, drunks, slanderers, and robbers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
"A person sins against the LORD by acting treacherously toward his neighbor regarding something entrusted to his care, regarding security for a loan, robbery, if he has oppressed his neighbor,
Wickedness is at the center of it; fraud and lies never leave its streets.
"This is what the Lord GOD says, "Enough of you, you regent princes of Israel! Abandon your violence and destruction. Practice what is just and right instead! Stop confiscating property from my people!' declares the Lord GOD.
But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."
Furthermore, you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard, because the Lord avenges all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.
"Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be trampled by it.
Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind.
You tolerate anyone who makes you his slaves, devours what you have, takes what is yours, orders you around, or slaps your face!
Later, Zacchaeus stood up and announced to the Lord, "Look! I'm giving half of my possessions to the destitute, and if I have accused anyone falsely, I'm repaying four times as much as I owe."
