Dishonesty

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

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

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; — read the full passage →

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

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

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

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

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

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. — read the full passage →

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. — read the full passage →

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. — read the full passage →

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

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

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

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.

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

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

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: — read the full passage →

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. — read the full passage →

Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? — read the full passage →

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

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

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. — read the full passage →

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: — read the full passage →

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

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.

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. — read the full passage →

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: — read the full passage →

Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: — read the full passage →