16 Bible Verses about Business At The Gateway

O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

Then thou hast brought out that man, or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates -- the man or the woman -- and thou hast stoned them with stones, and they have died.

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

For I have known -- many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

And Ephron is sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answereth Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all those entering the gate of his city, saying,

to Abraham by purchase, before the eyes of the sons of Heth, among all entering the gate of his city.

And Hamor cometh -- Shechem his son also -- unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying,

And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.

And Abner turneth back to Hebron, and Joab turneth him aside unto the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smiteth him there in the fifth rib -- and he dieth -- for the blood of Asahel his brother.

At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:

At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,

Wisdom is high for a fool, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.

These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,