40 Bible Verses about cheaters

However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.

Yet he has cheated me. He changed my wages ten times. However, God did not let him harm me.

Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

Good for nothing, cries the buyer. But when he goes his way he boasts about the purchase.

So I will give their wives to other men. I will give their fields to new owners. From the least even to the greatest everyone is greedy for gain. From the prophet even to the priest everyone is deceitful.

I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.'

Do not steal. Do not deal falsely. Do not lie to one another.

In the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

Jacob went closer. His father touched him. He said: You sound like Jacob, but your hands feel hairy like Esau's.

They covet fields and seize them. They covet houses and confiscate them! They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor. Do not trust any brother because every brother deals craftily (cunningly), and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

You must not wrong one another. You shall respect your God. I am Jehovah your God.

If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death.

He called all the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one: 'How much do you owe my master?'

Do not oppress your neighbor and do not rob him. Do not fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.

Jealousy enrages a man. He will not be spared in the day of vengeance.

Bread taken by deceit tastes sweet to a man. Afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.

Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.

Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.

Whoever robs his father or mother, and says: It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a man who destroys.

If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

The cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me will be cursed. For he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! I am a great King, Jehovah of Hosts declares. People of all nations will respect my name!

A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.

The one who does deceitful things will not stay in my home. The one who tells lies will not remain in my presence.

So is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says: I was only joking.

Yet you cannot completely avoid the fornicators of this world, nor the greedy persons, nor cheaters and robbers, nor those who worship idols. To do so you would have to leave this world.

A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.

He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.

Peter said: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the money from the land sale?

nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.

If any of you sin against Jehovah by failing to do your duty, if you lie to your neighbor about something you were supposed to take care of or if you lie about something stolen or seized from your neighbor, you are sinning and will be guilty.

Destruction is everywhere. Oppression and fraud never leave the streets.

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I have had enough of you, you princes of Israel.' 'Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.

Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified.

Your covenant with death will be annulled. Your agreement with the grave will not stand when the overflowing scourge passes through. Then you will be trampled down by it.

Let no man rob you of your prize by a self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things that he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face.

Zacchaeus stood before Jesus and said: Lord, I now give half of all my possessions to the poor. If I have defrauded any one I will give back four times the amount taken.