Bible Verses About Dishonesty: General references

"If someone sins and acts perversely against ADONAI by dealing falsely with his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him, by stealing from him, by extorting him,

or by dealing falsely in regard to a lost object he has found, or by swearing to a lie -if a person commits any of these sins,

then, if he sinned and is guilty, he is to restore whatever it was he stole or obtained by extortion, or whatever was deposited with him, or the lost object which he found,

or anything about which he has sworn falsely. He is to restore it in full plus an additional one-fifth; he must return it to the person who owns it, on the day when he presents his guilt offering.

He is to bring as his guilt offering to ADONAI a ram without defect from the flock, or its equivalent according to your appraisal, to the cohen; it is a guilt offering.

Thus the cohen will make atonement for him before ADONAI, and he will be forgiven in regard to whatever it was he did that made him guilty.

"'Don't be dishonest when measuring length, weight or capacity.

Rather, use an honest balance-scale, honest weights, an honest bushel dry-measure and an honest gallon liquid-measure; I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

"You are not to have in your pack two sets of weights, one heavy, the other light.

You are not to have in your house two sets of measures, one big, the other small.

You are to have a correct and fair weight, and you are to have a correct and fair measure, so that you will prolong your days in the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

For all who do such things, all who deal dishonestly, are destestable to ADONAI your God.

There are those who move boundary markers; they carry off flocks and pasture them;

they drive away the orphan's donkey; as collateral, they seize the widow's ox.

They push the needy out of the way -the poor of the land are forced into hiding;

like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they have to go out and scavenge food, [hoping that] the desert will provide food for their children.

They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.

They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,

wet with mountain rain, and hugging the rock for lack of shelter.

"There are those who pluck orphans from the breast and [those who] take [the clothes of] the poor in pledge,

so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];

between these men's rows [of olives], they make oil; treading their winepresses, they suffer thirst.

Don't withhold good from someone entitled to it when you have in hand the power to do it.

Don't tell your neighbor, "Go away! Come another time; I'll give it to you tomorrow," when you have it now.

Look! You are relying on deceitful words that can't do you any good.