Bible Verses About Crime

You treat my holy things with contempt, you profane my shabbats.

In you, people gossip to the point of inciting bloodshed; in you are those who go to eat on the mountains; in you, they commit lewd acts;

in you, they commit incest; in you, they force themselves on women during their menstrual impurity.

In you, one commits an abomination with his neighbor's wife; another commits some lewd act defiling his daughter-in-law; still another humbles his sister, his own father's daughter.

In you, people take bribes to shed blood; you demand and accept interest on loans; in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them; and you have forgotten me,' says Adonai ELOHIM.

Her leaders in it are like wolves tearing up the prey to shed blood and destroy people, in order to benefit unjustly.

Her prophets have "plastered" for them with whitewash, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, "Thus says Adonai ELOHIM," when ADONAI has not spoken.

The people of the land have extorted, robbed, wronged the poor and needy and unjustly oppressed foreigners.

"'I sought for a man among them who could build a barricade or stand in the break to oppose me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Hear the word of ADONAI, people of Isra'el! For ADONAI has a grievance against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no faithful love or knowledge of God in the land;

only swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery! They break all bounds, with one blood crime following another.

For from within, out of a person's heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness...

They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and vice; stuffed with jealousy, murder, quarrelling, dishonesty and ill-will; they are gossips,

slanderers, haters of God; they are insolent, arrogant and boastful; they plan evil schemes; they disobey their parents;

they are brainless, faithless, heartless and ruthless.

They know well enough God’s righteous decree that people who do such things deserve to die; yet not only do they keep doing them, but they applaud others who do the same.

Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

“Their feet rush to shed blood,

in their ways are ruin and misery,

and the way of shalom they do not know.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency;

involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue

and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!