Bible Verses About Cheating And Dishonest Business

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Classic false-balance proverb

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Another direct false-weights saying

A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Supports the fair-weights theme

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Deceitful weights are directly condemned

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

Directly condemns unequal weights and measures

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Requires just balances and weights

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Explicitly forbids diverse weights

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Merchant with false balances oppresses

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

Another clear just-balances passage

Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Explicitly says wrong and cheat brothers

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Commands honest labor instead of stealing

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Simple command against stealing, false dealing, and lying

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Defrauding a brother is explicitly named

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

General dishonesty is called an abomination

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Forbids cheating a neighbor and withholding wages

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Directly rejects craftiness and deceitful handling

Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Deceptive words used to exploit people

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Cheating through philosophy and empty deceit

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Dishonest gain among teachers is directly named

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Neighbor deceives neighbor

So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

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But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

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Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

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If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

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Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

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A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Dishonest person spreads strife

So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

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He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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