The bible covers all aspects of life even to the least that you could imagine. Let us take a look at 10 shocking verses that talks about ‘yahoo yahoo'(fraud)
1. Jeremiah 17:11
Good News Translation
The person who gets money dishonestly is like a bird that hatches eggs it didn’t lay. In the prime of life he will lose his riches, and in the end he is nothing but a fool.
2. Proverbs 20:17
New International Version
Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.
3. Proverbs 13:11
New Living Translation
Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time.
4. Leviticus 19:13
New International Version
5. “‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.
Proverbs 28:22
New Living
6. Translation
Greedy people try to get rich quick but don’t realize they’re headed for poverty.
7. 1 Timothy 6:9-10
International Standard Version
But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.
8. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.
Micah 2:1-3
New International Version
9. Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
10. Therefore, the Lord says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Proverbs 10:2
New International Version
Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 16:8
Good News Translation
It is better to have a little, honestly earned, than to have a large income, dishonestly gained.
Ephesians 4:28
New International Version
Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.
Written By Journalist Emeka Ogwu
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