Quotes about Deception
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
- Genesis 42:9
“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
- Genesis 42:12
But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.
- Genesis 42:31
As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.
- Genesis 42:35
“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
- Genesis 44:15
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
- Exodus 2:12
Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
- Exodus 5:9
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Exodus 20:16
So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
- Exodus 32:24
“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 6:2
or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—
- Leviticus 6:3
You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
- Leviticus 19:11