Dishonesty
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Dishonesty’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 52 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and…
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“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
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“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
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You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small. You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that…
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Job 24:2-11 OT
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth…
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Psalms 37:21 OT
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.
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Psalms 50:18 OT
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
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Psalms 62:10 OT
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
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Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
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Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.
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A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
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Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
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Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
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Isaiah 32:7 OT
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
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Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, then come and stand before me in this house, which is…
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“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their…
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Jeremiah 9:8 OT
Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
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“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
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The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
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Hosea 4:1 OT
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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Hosea 4:2 OT
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.