12 Bible Verses about cheaters
Most Relevant Verses
I, however, say to you that any one who looks at a woman with an impure intention has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Instead of this, you wrong and cheat others yourselves-yes, even your Brothers!
One by one he called up his master's debtors. 'How much do you owe my master?' he asked of the first.
No athlete is ever awarded the wreath of victory unless he has kept the rules.
Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.
"Ananias," Peter exclaimed, "how is it that Satan has so taken possession of your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit, and kept back a part of the money paid for the land?
Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom.
But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'
None of you over-reaching or taking advantage of his Brother in such matters. 'The Lord takes vengeance' upon all who do such things, as we have already warned you and solemnly declared.
Do not let any one defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called 'humility' and angel-worship. Such a man busies himself with his visions, and without reason is rendered conceited by his merely human intellect.
You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face!
But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: "Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded any one of anything, I will give him back four times as much."