Bible Verses About Dishonesty: General references

If any sinne and commit a trespasse against the Lord, and denie vnto his neighbour that, which was take him to keepe, or that which was put to him of trust, or doth by robberie, or by violence oppresse his neighbour,

Or hath found that which was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely, for any of these things that a man doeth, wherein he sinneth:

When, I say, he thus sinneth and trespasseth, he shall then restore the robbery that he robbed, or the thing taken by violence which hee tooke by force, or the thing which was deliuered him to keepe, or the lost thing which he founde,

Or for whatsoeuer he hath sworne falsely, he shall both restore it in the whole summe, and shall adde the fift parte more thereto, and giue it vnto him to whome perteyneth, the same day that he offreth for trespasse.

Also he shall bring for his trespasse vnto the Lord, a ramme without blemish out of the flocke in thy estimation worth two shekels for a trespasse offring vnto the Priest.

And the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord, and it shall be forgiuen him, whatsoeuer thing he hath done, and trespassed therein.

Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement, in line, in weight, or in measure.

You shall haue iust ballances, true weightes, a true Ephah, and a true Hin. I am the Lord your God, which haue brought you out of the lande of Egypt.

Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of weightes, a great and a small,

Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures, a great and a small:

But thou shalt haue a right and iust weight: a perfite and a iust measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.

Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.

They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.

They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.

Withhold not the good from the owners thereof, though there be power in thine hand to doe it.

Say not vnto thy neighbour, Go and come againe, and to morow wil I giue thee, if thou now haue it.

Beholde, you trust in lying woordes, that can not profite.