Bible Verses About Dishonesty: General references

“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor

or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—

once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.

Then he must bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock.

In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.

You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.