Bible verses about "fraud" | Darby

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

⁴⁴ Ye are of the devil, as [your] father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

⁸ But to the fearful and unbelieving, [and sinners], and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [is] in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

¹¹ Wealth [gotten] by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase [it].

¹ Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ³ Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time. ⁴ In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious. ⁵ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah. ⁶ Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy to these, the ignominy will not depart. ⁷ O thou [that art] named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? ⁸ But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely, that are averse from war. ⁹ The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever. ¹⁰ Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction. ¹¹ If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, [saying,] I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall be the prophet of this people. ¹² I will surely assemble, O Jacob, the whole of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men. ¹³ One that breaketh through is gone up before them: they have broken forth, and have passed on to the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king passeth on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment? ² Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ and who 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 cauldron. ⁴ Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings. ⁵ Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him: ⁶ therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them. ⁷ And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God. ⁸ But truly I am filled with power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and with judgment and with might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. ⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity, ¹⁰ that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness. ¹¹ The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. ¹² Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

¹⁰ He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much. ¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true? ¹² and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another`s, who shall give to you your own? ¹³ No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

¹⁷ Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.