Nave’s Topical Bible
Dishonesty
42 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Leviticus 6:2-7; Leviticus 19:13,35-36; Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Job 24:2-11; Psalms 37:21; Psalms 50:18; Psalms 62:10; Proverbs 3:27-28; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 20:10,14,17,23; Isaiah 32:7; Jeremiah 7:8-10; Jeremiah 9:4-6,8; Jeremiah 22:13; Ezekiel 22:29; Hosea 4:1-2; Hosea 12:7; Amos 3:10; Amos 8:5; Micah 6:10-11; Nahum 3:1; Zephaniah 1:9; Zechariah 5:3-4; Luke 16:1-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; James 5:4
- INSTANCES OF
- Abimelech's servants confiscate a well
- Jacob obtains his brother's birthright by an unjust Advantage
- Jacob steals his father's blessing
- Jacob gains from Laban's flocks by skillful manipulation
- Rebekah's craftiness in Jacob's behalf
- Laban's treatment of Jacob
- Rachel steals the household gods
- Simeon and Levi deceive the Shechemites
- Achan hides the wedge of gold and the Babylonian garment
- Micah steals one-thousand one-hundred pieces of silver
- Micah's priest steals his images
- Joab's guile in securing Absalom's return
- Ahab confiscates Naboth's vineyard
- Judas' hypocritical sympathy for the poor
See DIPLOMACY
See HYPOCRISY
See INJUSTICE
See TREASON
Bible verses about “Dishonesty”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Leviticus 6:2If 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;
- Leviticus 6:3Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
- Leviticus 6:4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
- Leviticus 6:5Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
- Leviticus 6:6And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
- Leviticus 6:7And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
- Leviticus 19:13Thou 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.
- Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Leviticus 19:36Just 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.
- Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 25:16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
- Job 24:2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
- Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- Job 24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
- Job 24:6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
- Job 24:7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- Job 24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- Job 24:10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
- Job 24:11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
- Psalms 37:21The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
- Psalms 50:18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
- Psalms 62:10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
- Proverbs 3:27Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
- Proverbs 3:28Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
- Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 20:10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
- Proverbs 20:14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
- Proverbs 20:17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Proverbs 20:23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
- Isaiah 32:7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
- Jeremiah 7:8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- Jeremiah 7:9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
- Jeremiah 7:10And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
- Jeremiah 9:4Take 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.
- Jeremiah 9:5And 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.
- Jeremiah 9:6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.