Robbery Forbidden
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him. (Lev. 19: 13.)
Thou shalt not steal. (Ex. 20: 15.)
Lying Commanded, Approved, and Sanctioned
And the Lord said unto Samuel,... I will send thee to Jesse, the Bethlemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons. And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear it he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. (1 Sam. 16: 1, 2.)
And the woman [Rahab] took the two men and hid them and said thus: There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were; and it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I wot not; pursue after them quickly, for ye shall overtake them. But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them with the stalks of flax. (Josh. 2: 4, 5, 6.)
Was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had them sent out another way? (James 2: 25.)
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive? And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives. (Ex. 1: 18–20.)
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him... I will go forth and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him and prevail also; go forth and do so. (1 Kings 22: 21, 22.)
Ye shall know my breach of promise. (Num. 14: 34.)
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? (Rom. 3: 7.)
Being crafty, I caught you with guile. (2 Cor. 12: 16.)