Cheating

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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

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

• Prayer

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

• Abomination

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

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

• Gehazi
• Curse
• Gehazi

The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

• Moon

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

• Laban
• Covetousness
• Master

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

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

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

• Integrity

And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.

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.

The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

• Servant

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.

• Punishment

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

• Eye
• FOOTSTOOL
• Stool

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• Gehazi
• Deception

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

• Heart

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

• Women

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

• Security

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

• Strangers

Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

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

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

• Church
• Corruption
• Diplomacy

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

• Waiting

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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.

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

• Covetousness
• Dog
• Gospel

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. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?