Bible Verses About Fraud
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for fraud, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,695 votes, led by Proverbs 20:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Fraud
Proverbs 20:17194 votes
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Luke 16:10-13160 votes
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Proverbs 13:11110 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Micah 2:1-3:12106 votes
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.
Proverbs 10:297 votes
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:166 votes
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
Leviticus 19:1159 votes
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
John 8:4458 votes
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Revelation 21:851 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Psalms 37:2145 votes
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Galatians 6:739 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
James 5:438 votes
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Psalms 44:2137 votes
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
1 Timothy 6:9-1032 votes
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Psalms 36:427 votes
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Proverbs 12:2227 votes
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Leviticus 19:3125 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Luke 8:1723 votes
For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
Hebrews 13:523 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Matthew 6:2422 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Ephesians 4:2822 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Revelation 22:1522 votes
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Proverbs 28:2021 votes
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Mark 4:1921 votes
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
1 John 1:921 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
What does the Bible say about fraud?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 20:17 on the subject of fraud. Across 1,695 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 16:10-13, Proverbs 13:11, Micah 2:1-3:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.