Bible Verses About Dishonesty

Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;

Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:

Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore

All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.

Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of the flock: and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offence.

And he shall pray for him before the Lord: and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in doing of which he bath sinned.

Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.

Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.

Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.

Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.

They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.

Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.

They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.

Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.

Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present.

Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you: