Zechariah 5:3

New International Version

And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.

Cross References

Exodus 20:15

“You shall not steal.

Proverbs 29:24

The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies; they are put under oath and dare not testify.

Proverbs 3:33

The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

Proverbs 30:9

Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Isaiah 43:28

So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.

Isaiah 48:1

“Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the nations of the earth.’ ”

Jeremiah 5:2

Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.”

Jeremiah 7:9

“ ‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,

Ezekiel 2:9

Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll,

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.

Hosea 4:2

There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Leviticus 19:11

“ ‘Do not steal. “ ‘Do not lie. “ ‘Do not deceive one another.

Leviticus 19:12

“ ‘Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

Zechariah 5:4

The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”

Zechariah 8:17

do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord.

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Malachi 4:6

He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”

Matthew 25:41

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Luke 21:35

For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.

Ephesians 4:28

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.

1 Timothy 1:9

We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

James 5:12

Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.

James 5:4

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.”

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.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.