Dishonesty
46 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- Abimelech's Servants Confiscate a Well
- Achan Hides the Wedge of Gold and the Babylonian Garment
- Ahab Confiscates Naboth's Vineyard
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Jacob Gains from Laban's Flocks by Skillful Manipulation
- Jacob Obtains his Brother's Birthright by an Unjust Advantage
- Jacob Steals his Father's Blessing
- Joab's Guile in Securing Absalom's Return
- Judas' Hypocritical Sympathy for the Poor
- Laban's Treatment of Jacob
- Micah Steals One-Thousand One-Hundred Pieces of Silver
- Micah's Priest Steals his Images
- Rachel Steals the Household Gods
- Rebekah's Craftiness in Jacob's Behalf
- Simeon and Levi Deceive the Shechemites
Abimelech's Servants Confiscate a Well
- Genesis 21:25 But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
- Genesis 26:15–22 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham. …
Achan Hides the Wedge of Gold and the Babylonian Garment
- Joshua 7:11–26 Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions. …
Ahab Confiscates Naboth's Vineyard
- 1 Kings 21:2–16 So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place — or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.” …
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 …
- Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Leviticus 19:35–36 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. …
- Deuteronomy 25:13–16 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. …
- Job 24:2–11 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. …
- Psalm 37:21 The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
- Psalm 50:18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
- 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.
- Proverbs 3:27–28 Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act. …
- Proverbs 11:1 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
- Proverbs 20:10 Differing weights and unequal measures— both are detestable to the LORD.
- Proverbs 20:14 “Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.
- Proverbs 20:17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
- Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 7:8–10 But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. …
- Jeremiah 9:4–6 “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. …
- Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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! …
- Hosea 12:7 A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- Amos 3:10 “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
- 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.
- 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? …
- Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
- 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.
- 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. …
- Luke 16:1–8 Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. …
- 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.
- 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.
Jacob Gains from Laban's Flocks by Skillful Manipulation
- Genesis 30:31–43 “What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks. …
Jacob Obtains his Brother's Birthright by an Unjust Advantage
- Genesis 25:29–33 One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished. …
Jacob Steals his Father's Blessing
- Genesis 27:6–29 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, …
Joab's Guile in Securing Absalom's Return
- 2 Samuel 14:2–20 So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time. …
Judas' Hypocritical Sympathy for the Poor
- John 12:6 Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.
Laban's Treatment of Jacob
- Genesis 29:21–30 Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.” …
- Genesis 31:36–42 Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me? …
Micah Steals One-Thousand One-Hundred Pieces of Silver
- Judges 17:2 said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse— I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”
Micah's Priest Steals his Images
- Judges 18:14–21 Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.” …
Rachel Steals the Household Gods
- Genesis 31:19 Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Rebekah's Craftiness in Jacob's Behalf
- Genesis 27:6–17 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, …
Simeon and Levi Deceive the Shechemites
- Genesis 34:15–31 We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us — every one of your males. …
Related topics
Covetousness in Defrauding Esau of His, Father's BlessingAbsalom is Permitted by David to Return to JerusalemCraftiness in Management of Laban's Flocks and HerdsDisobedience to God of Achan, in Hiding the Wedge of Gold and the Babylonian GarnientCraftinessObsequiousness
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.