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To be honest and true in all our dealings, Le 19:11. God, who has appointed every man's property by his providence, forbids by his law the invading of that appointment, either by downright theft, You shall not steal, or by fraudulent dealing, "You shall not cheat, or deal falsely." Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The God of truth, who requires truth in the heart (Ps 51:6), requires it also in the tongue: Neither lie one to another, either in bargaining or common converse. This is one of the laws of Christianity (Col 3:9): Lie not one to another. Those that do not speak truth do not deserve to be told truth; those that sin by lying justly suffer by it; therefore we are forbidden to lie one to another; for, if we lie to others, we teach them to lie to us.
12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou
profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
To maintain a very reverent regard to the sacred name of God (Le 19:12), and not to call him to be witness either,
1. To a lie: You shall not swear falsely. It is bad to tell a lie, but it is much worse to swear it. Or,
2. To a trifle, and every impertinence: Neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God, by alienating it to any other purpose than that for which it is to be religiously used.
13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages
of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Neither to take nor keep any one's right from him, Le 19:13. We must not take that which is none of our own, either by fraud or robbery; nor detain that which belongs to another, particularly the wages of the hireling, let it not abide with thee all night. Let the day-labourer have his wages as soon as he has done his day's work, if he desire it. It is a great sin