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Dishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 6:2–7
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor / or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit— / once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:13, 35, 36
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand. / You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. / You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 25:13–16
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. / You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small. / You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Job 24:2–11
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. / They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. / They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 50:18
When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 62:10
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 3:27, 28
Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act. / Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 11:1
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:10, 14, 17, 23
Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD. / “Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats. / Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 32:7
The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 7:8–10
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. / Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 9:4–6, 8
“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. / Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. / You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 4:1, 2
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! / Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 12:7
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 3:10
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 8:5
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Micah 6:10, 11
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed? / Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Zephaniah 1:9
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 5:3, 4
Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed. / I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 16:1–8
Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. / So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’ / The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 4:6
and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.
Open passageDishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning James 5:4
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:35, 36
You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. / You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 16:20
Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 25:13–16
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. / You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small. / You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Job 27:6
I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 7:3, 4
O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands, / if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 11:1
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 16:11
Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:10, 23
Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD. / Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 33:15, 16
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil— / he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 45:10
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 7:12
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 3:12, 13
Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?” / “Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 24:16
In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 4:1, 2
Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart. / Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 7:2
Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 8:21
For we are taking great care to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 3:22
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 12
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you. / Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.
Open passageHonesty: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Peter 2:12
Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
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