Bible Verses about “fraud”

“But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."”

“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

“Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”

“Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.”

“The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.”

“You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.”

“But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.”

“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”

“If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?”

“Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.”

“No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."”

“A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.”

“Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.”

“If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?”

“"'You shall not steal. "'You shall not lie. "'You shall not deceive one another.”

“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.”

“Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.”

“They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.”

“Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.”

“In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"”

“Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.”

“I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they will swarm with people.”

“won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.”

“Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these his doings? Don't my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?"”

“He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.”

“"Don't prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."”

“But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.”

“You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.”

“Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.”

“If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people.”

“I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?”

“You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;”

“who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.”

“Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."”

“Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:”

“"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.”

“The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God."”

“But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.”

“Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.”

“They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.”

“Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."”

“Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.”