What Does the Bible Say About Fraud And Misleading?

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 31 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

John 8:44 ESV / 27 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Hebrews 13:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.

Exodus 23:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 2:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Exodus 23:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

John 8:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Proverbs 12:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

Proverbs 6:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

Luke 16:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Proverbs 25:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

John 16:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Psalm 52:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

1 John 2:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Mark 12:1-44 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. ...

Judges 16:4-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.” So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.” Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.” Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them. ...

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Luke 8:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Deuteronomy 19:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

52 Bible Verses about Fraud And Misleading

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:44 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 12:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 52:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 12:1-44 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 16:4-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 8:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 19:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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