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Leviticus 6:2-5 — "When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted {to him,} or through robbery, or {if} he has extorted from his companion,
or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;
then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall restore what he took by robbery or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him or the lost thing which he found,
or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full and add to it one-fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day {he presents} his guilt offering.
Leviticus 6:6-7 — ~"Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering,
and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt."
Leviticus 19:11 — `You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
Leviticus 19:13 — `You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob {him.} The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.
Leviticus 19:35 — `You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.
Numbers 23:19 — "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Deuteronomy 25:13-16 — "You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
~"You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
~"You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
~"For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Joshua 7:11 — ~"Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of the things under the ban and have both stolen and deceived. Moreover, they have also put {them} among their own things.
2 Kings 12:15 — Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings 22:7 — ~"Only no accounting shall be made with them for the money delivered into their hands, for they deal faithfully."
Psalms 5:6 — You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
Psalms 12:6 — The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
Psalms 15:5 — He does not put out his money (I.e. to a fellow Israelite) at interest, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
Psalms 24:4-5 — He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood And has not sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psalms 34:13 — Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalms 101:7 — He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
Psalms 111:7 — The works of His hands are truth and justice; All His precepts are sure.
Psalms 111:8 — They are upheld forever and ever; They are performed in truth and uprightness.
Psalms 120:2 — Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, From a deceitful tongue.
Proverbs 3:28 — Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give {it,}" When you have it with you.
Proverbs 4:24-25 — Put away from you a deceitful mouth And put devious speech far from you.
Let your eyes look directly ahead And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.
Proverbs 8:6 — "Listen, for I will speak noble things; And the opening of my lips {will reveal} right things.
Proverbs 11:1 — A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, But a just weight is His delight.
Proverbs 12:22 — Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, But those who deal faithfully are His delight.
Proverbs 16:11 — A just balance and scales belong to the LORD; All the weights of the bag are His concern.
Proverbs 19:9 — A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish.
Proverbs 20:10 — Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them are abominable to the LORD.
Proverbs 20:14 — "Bad, bad," says the buyer, But when he goes his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 20:17 — Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 21:6 — The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.
Proverbs 26:28 — A lying tongue hates those it crushes, And a flattering mouth works ruin.
Proverbs 30:5 — Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
Isaiah 32:7-8 — As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy {the} afflicted with slander, Even though {the} needy one speaks what is right.
But the noble man devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands.
Isaiah 45:19 — "I have not spoken in secret, In some dark land; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, `Seek Me in a waste place'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are upright.
Isaiah 63:8 — For He said, "Surely, they are My people, Sons who will not deal falsely." So He became their Savior.
Jeremiah 7:8-9 — "Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
~"Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,
Jeremiah 9:8-9 — "Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.
"Shall I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?
Jeremiah 22:13 — "Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness And his upper rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor's services without pay And does not give him his wages,
Zephaniah 3:13 — "The remnant of Israel will do no wrong And tell no lies, Nor will a deceitful tongue Be found in their mouths; For they will feed and lie down With no one to make them tremble."
Matthew 7:12 — "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Mark 7:21-23 — ~"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
deeds of coveting {and} wickedness, {as well as} deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride {and} foolishness.
~"All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man."
Luke 3:12-13 — And {some} tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"
And he said to them, "Collect no more than what you have been ordered to."
Luke 16:10 — "He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.
John 8:44-46 — ~"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 does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own {nature,} for he is a liar and the father of lies.
~"But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
~"Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?
John 12:5-6 — "Why was this perfume not sold for (Equivalent to 11 months' wages) three hundred denarii and given to poor {people?}"
Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
Acts 5:1-5 — But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
and kept back {some} of the price for himself, with his wife's full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back {some} of the price of the land?
~"While it remained {unsold,} did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."
And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.
Acts 5:6-10 — The young men got up and covered him up, and after carrying him out, they buried him.
Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
And Peter responded to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for such and such a price?" And she said, "Yes, that was the price."
Then Peter {said} to her, "Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out {as well.}"
And immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
Acts 24:16 — ~"In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience {both} before God and before men.
1 Corinthians 6:7-8 — Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. {You do} this even to {your} brethren.
2 Corinthians 4:2 — but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 7:2 — Make room for us {in your hearts;} we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.
Ephesians 4:25 — Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE {of you} WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.
Colossians 3:9-10 — Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its {evil} practices,
and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him--
Colossians 3:22 — Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who {merely} please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 — {and} that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is {the} avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned {you.}
Titus 1:2 — in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,
Hebrews 13:18 — Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things.
James 5:4 — Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, {and} which has been withheld by you, cries out {against you;} and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
1 Peter 2:1 — Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
1 Peter 2:12 — Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe {them,} glorify God in the day of (I.e. Christ's coming again in judgment) visitation.
1 Peter 2:22 — WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;
1 John 2:22-23 — Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
Revelation 14:5 — And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.
Revelation 21:8 — ~"But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {will be} in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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