27 Bible Verses about Business Ethics

Idle hands make one poor,
but diligent hands bring riches.

The slacker craves, yet has nothing,
but the diligent is fully satisfied.

Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will stand in the presence of kings.
He will not stand in the presence of unknown men.

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Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found at peace with Him without spot or blemish.

You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

“You must not have two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

He left all that he owned under Joseph’s authority; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity.

The administrators and satraps, therefore, kept trying to find a charge against Daniel regarding the kingdom. But they could find no charge or corruption, for he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.

“You must not be unfair in measurements of length, weight, or volume.

Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord,
but an accurate weight is His delight.

Go to the ant, you slacker!
Observe its ways and become wise.
Without leader, administrator, or ruler,
it prepares its provisions in summer;
it gathers its food during harvest.

The son who gathers during summer is prudent;
the son who sleeps during harvest is disgraceful.

The one who works his land will have plenty of food,
but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

Wealth obtained by fraud will dwindle,
but whoever earns it through labor will multiply it.

You supported me because of my integrity
and set me in Your presence forever.

The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.

Better a poor man who lives with integrity
than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.

But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor
and exact a grain tax from him,
you will never live in the houses of cut stone
you have built;
you will never drink the wine
from the lush vineyards
you have planted.

The one who is truly lazy in his work
is brother to a vandal.

I went by the field of a slacker
and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense.

Better a little with righteousness
than great income with injustice.

Making a fortune through a lying tongue
is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

He who makes a fortune unjustly
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his days
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.

You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.