For Christians all over the world, the Bible is the definitive source for answers to questions about God. However, numerous Biblical texts encapsulate moral lessons across a range of contexts including cheating and infidelity. In the Biblical context, cheating is mainly captured as dishonest gain. In the contemporary context, it refers to both dishonest gain and infidelity, as reflected in this article.
Interestingly, Exodus 20:17 addresses cheating in the light of both infidelity and dishonest gain. It reads “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
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20 Bible Verses About Cheating (Dishonest Gain)
The scriptures that highlight cheating in the light of dishonest gain also see the act as sin and disobedience against the commands of the Lord. Moreover, the Bible emphasizes the importance and relevance of integrity and hard work.
1. Proverbs 11:1
The LORD detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.
2. Amos 8:5
saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
3. Proverbs 12:22
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.
4. Leviticus 19:11
Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another.
5. 1 Corinthians 6:8
Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters
6. Proverbs 10:9
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out
7. Malachi 1:14
Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations
8. Galatians 6:7-8
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows
9. Exodus 20:17
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor
10. Genesis 27:34-36
When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”
35 – But Isaac replied, Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36 – Esau exclaimed, Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
11. Genesis 31:19-21
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.20 – Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away.21 – So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
12. Genesis 31:6-7
6 – You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strenght7 – yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me
13. Genesis 29:23
In the morning when Jacob saw that he had had sexual relations with Leah, he said to Laban, “What have you done to me? I worked hard for you so that I could marry Rachel! Why did you trick me?
14. Proverbs 13:11
Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, But the one who gathers by labor increases it.
15. Proverbs 20:23
Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, And a false scale is not good.
16. Proverbs 20:23
He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much
17. Leviticus 19:35
You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity
18. Micah 6:11
Can I justify wicked scales, and a bag of deceptive weights?
19. 1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain
20. Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are intent only upon your dishonest gain, and on shedding innocent blood and on practicing oppression and extortion
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20 Scriptural Verses About Cheating (Infidelity)
Cheating or infidelity in the bible is condemned in very strong terms. Several bible verses have labeled lust, adultery, and sexual immorality as sins with grievous consequences attached.
1. Mathew 5:27-28
27 – You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’28 – But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
2. Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
3. John 8:3-11
3 – The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group
4 – and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5- In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women.Now what do you say?
6 – They were using this question as a trap,in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
7 – When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stoneat her.
8 – Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 – At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
10 – Jesus straightened up and asked her, Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 – “No one, sir,” she said. Then neither do I condemn you,Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.
4. Job 31:1
I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman
5. Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
6. Galatians 6:8
Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
7. 1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
8. Proverbs 6:29
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
9. Mathew 19:9
I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery
10. Proverbs 6:32
32 – But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself
11. Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death
12. 1 Corinthians 6:18
18 – Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body
13. 1 Corinthians 7:10-11
10 – To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
11 – But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
14. Ezekiel 23:37
for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them
15. Mathew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
16. Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel
17. Mathew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander
18. Proverbs 6:25
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes
19. Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death
20. 1 Corinthians 6:9
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men
