Quotes about Dishonesty
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Jeremiah 22:17
Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
- Ezekiel 13:10
By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
- Ezekiel 28:18
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 33:31
They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
- Hosea 7:3
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- Hosea 12:7
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.
- Amos 8:5
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
- Micah 3:11
But Jesus saw through their hypocrisy and said, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to inspect.”
- Mark 12:15
Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
- Luke 16:1
Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
- Acts 5:1
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- Romans 3:13