Leviticus 19:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.”
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BSBPD
“You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Leviticus 19:11 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:15You shall not steal.
- Exodus 20:17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- Exodus 22:1“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
- Exodus 22:7If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
- Exodus 22:10If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching,
- Leviticus 6:2“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
- Deuteronomy 5:19You shall not steal.
- 1 Kings 13:18Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
- Psalms 101:7No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.
- Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- Jeremiah 6:13“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Jeremiah 7:9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
- Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Zechariah 5:3Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
- Zechariah 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
- Acts 5:3Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
- Romans 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
- Ephesians 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- Ephesians 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
- Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
- 1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
- Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
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