📝 Administer property without right
This study lists scriptures on administering property without right.
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👎 Reproof
Lamentations 3:35-36
- To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
- To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
Faithfulness and integrity
Luke 12:48
- But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Luke 16:10-12
- 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.
- If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?
- And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?
1 Corinthians 4:2
- Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Philippians 2:3-4
- [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
- Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Colossians 3:9
- Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Theft and unjust gain
Exodus 20:15-17
- Thou shalt not steal.
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Proverbs 11:1
- A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Dishonesty
Proverbs 21:6
- The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Proverbs 24:28-29
- Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips.
- Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
Restoration and justice
Leviticus 6:2-5
- If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
- Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
- Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
- Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, [and] give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Proverbs 6:30-31
- [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
- But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Warning
Withholding right is theft
Proverbs 16:8
- Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Jeremiah 17:11
- As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
- Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
We must give account
Ecclesiastes 12:14
- For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Romans 2:16
- In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Romans 14:10-12
- But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
- For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
- So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
1 Corinthians 4:5
- Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
1 Peter 1:17
- And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
God will render to every man
Job 34:11
- For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Proverbs 19:5
- A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Proverbs 24:12
- If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Jeremiah 17:10
- I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Ezekiel 18:20-28
- The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
- But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
- Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
- But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
- Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
- When a righteous [man] turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
- Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
- Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Romans 2:3-13
- And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
- Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
- But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
- To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
- But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
- Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
- But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
- For there is no respect of persons with God.
- For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
- (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
1 Corinthians 3:13
- Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
2 Corinthians 5:10
- For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Galatians 6:7
- Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Colossians 3:25
- But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
1 Thessalonians 4:6
- That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Do
Luke 21:36
- Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
John 14:15
- If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Revelation 22:14
- Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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