The Primary Text: Mar 10:19  Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.  (KJV, emphasis added) I call "Defraud not" the "missing commandment" because this is a largely ignored text of Scripture. The principle stated by the command to "defraud not" has broad and continuing application to all parts of society everywhere. If this command were to be obeyed in all its possible applications things would be much better. In no particular order, here are some of the areas of application I would suggest:

1. Tax on unrealized gain in property value, assessed as property tax, is flagrantly a matter of fraud. Just because a house in my locality sold for a higher price does not mean my house should have its value raised and tax increased. A property is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. A home should be taxed only on the amount it last sold for. Property tax ought to be eliminated altogether.
2. Pouring money into the economy by the Federal Reserve causes terrible inflation because there is more money chasing after the same goods and services causing prices to increase. Notice wages do not increase as fast as inflation does.
3. Inflation reduces the value of the dollar. A given sum of money, fiat money at that, cannot buy what it once could. This disrupts the well-being of wage earners for they must reduce their standard of living to make ends meet. Their reduced spending affects the survival of the businesses who have depended on their spending.
4. For individuals and families who have wisely learned to "live beneath their means" and have managed to accumulate savings, inflation has robbed them of their hard-earned wealth because the dollars saved have vastly lost their purchasing power.

The Bible contains much information about money! See the subject index entry for "Money" in the New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or the Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury. The Bible commands just weights and measures: Pro 20:10  Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. (KJV) Pro 20:10  The LORD hates people who use dishonest weights and measures. (GNB, Good News Bible) Pro 20:10  The LORD hates for people to use the wrong weights and measures to cheat others. (ERV, Easy-to-Read Version) The NET Bible has a note which explains that "Behind this proverb is the image of the dishonest merchant who has different sets of weights and measures which are used to cheat customers. The Lord hates dishonesty in business transactions." My wife and I have experienced the injustice of inaccurate weights and measures when buying apples by the bushel from apple orchards and bulk food stores. Often the "bushel" as sold is wrong by volume as well as weight. Some employees are careful to fill the bushel basket carefully--it should be heaping full. We try to go to the orchard when we know we will be serviced by that employee. We have purchased our own accurate scales to check the weight! As I recall, the per bushel weight varied from 16 to 22 pounds. A bushel should be 25 pounds, we think. We don't expect to need to can any more apple sauce or apple pie filling in the future, but this was a concern in the past. The Bible has a solution to the problem of ever-expanding national debt In the news today (Friday, February 20, 2026) I heard that the United States Supreme Court has ruled AGAINST President Trump's efforts to use tariffs to correct trade imbalances and bring in funds to support what needs to be done in our country. Many years ago when I was on the debate team at Cass Technical High School the topic for debate was free trade. When I was on a debate team at Bob Jones University the debate topic one year was about tariffs. I believe that today the Supreme Court made a dreadful decision. I suspect the members of the Supreme Court have not studied at length and in detail enough and long enough to get an accurate understanding of the wisdom of President Trump's tariff policy and the economic benefits it would bring. In the nineteenth century, during our Industrial Revolution, tariffs were effectively used to protect the development and growth of American industry against competition from cheap or subsidized imports from other countries. I have in my personal print library here several recent books about this very topic and I have read and studied them repeatedly. We are in a similar position today: we need to bring back manufacturing to the United States of America. To do that, we must be able to protect the redevelopment of American Industry by tariffs like we did during our original Industrial Revolution. Properly done, in the manner President Trump envisions, tariffs could and should replace our present income tax. I just heard Dan Bongino this evening on this very topic. We would have to eliminate wasteful spending by bringing back "DOGE," the Department of Government Efficiency. There would be a short time of some dislocation, but eventually the economy would come roaring back. Many families would see a $30,000 increase in their income. Ancient cultures before the time of Moses figured out that all debts must be cancelled periodically to squelch the ever-growing debt spirals economies experience. Moses included in what we sometimes call the Mosaic Law just such a provision called the Jubilee Year. From the Subject Index of the New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or the Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury: Jubilee (1) definition, Lev 25:11 note. (2) institutional purpose, typical meaning, prophetic significance, Lev 25:52 note. Lev 25:11  A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. (KJV) Leviticus 25:11 A jubile. Note: Respecting the literal meaning of the word יובל, yobel, or yovel, critics are not agreed. Some derive it from Jubal, who was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen 4:21), because this year was one of mirth and joy, on which music is a common attendant, or else because it was ushered in by the musical sound of the trumpet. Others, particularly R. David Kimchi, tell us that yovel signifies a ram in Arabic; and that this year was so called because it was proclaimed with trumpets made of ram’s horns. With him the Rabbins in general agree; and the Chaldee Targum sometimes renders it by dichra, a ram. The most natural derivation of the word, however, seems to be from הוביל, hovil, the Hiphil form of יבל, yaval, to recall, restore, or bring back, because this year restored all slaves to their liberty, and brought back all alienated estates to their primitive owners. Accordingly, the LXX. render it here αφεσις, aphesis, a remission; and Josephus (Ant. l. iii. c. 12 § 3) says it signifies ελευθεριαν, eleutherian, liberty. Lev 27:17. ye shall not sow. Lev 25:5, 6, 7. neither reap. Exo 23:11. Lev 25:52  And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. (KJV) Leviticus 25:52 jubile. Note: The Jubilee was a wonderful institution, and of great service to the religion, freedom, and independence of the Hebrews. It was calculated to prevent the rich from oppressing the poor, and reducing them to perpetual slavery; and to hinder their obtaining possession of all the lands by purchase, mortgage, or usurpation. It was further intended, that debts should not be multiplied too much, lest the poor should be entirely ruined; that slaves should not always continue in servitude; that personal liberty, equality of property, and the regular order of families might, as much as possible, be preserved; and that the people might thus be strongly attached to their country, lands, and inheritances. The Concise Bible Dictionary notes (p. 456) that "There is no record of the Sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee ever being kept. Lev 26:34, 35 predicts what would happen if the Israelites did not let the land keep the sabbaths. It reads almost like a prophecy: the land should lie desolate "because it did not rest in your sabbaths." In Jer 25:11, 12; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2 the actual desolation is said to be seventy years. And as the land was to have rested one year in every seven, it follows that the 70 answer to 70 X 7 = 490 years. Now the kingdom began B.C. 1095, and Jerusalem was taken in 606, which is just 490 years, and seems to confirm the silence in the history of Israel as to their giving the land the prescribed sabbaths. Apparently in this, as in everything else, they failed to obey; but the Jubilee will be made good to them in grace when they own their Messiah." The jubilee is a type of the millennium. It speaks of a time, never yet celebrated, when Israel shall be restored to God’s favor, and shall return to the undisturbed possession (Isa 11:11; *Amos 9:15; Mic 4:6, 7) of her land, when the great jubilee trumpet will recall them to worship in Jerusalem (*Isa 27:12; *Isa 27:13). See Lev 25:9 note. The year 1913 was a very bad year for the United States, for in that year the Income Tax was imposed. The Sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was never properly ratified by the States but was fraudulently allowed to become law anyway. Thus, Income Tax is an example of the "Missing Commandment" stated by Jesus in Mark 10:19, "Defraud not."