27 Bible Verses about Business Ethics

He that deals with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and attains nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Seest thou a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that ye hope for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.

And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and with him knew of nothing more than of the bread which he ate. And Joseph was handsome and well favoured.

Moreover they did not require accounts from the men into whose hands they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen, for they dealt faithfully.

Then the presidents and governors looked for occasions against Daniel on behalf of the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault because he was faithful, and no vice nor fault was found in him.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement of land, in weight, or in other measure.

A false balance is abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise, Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.

He that gathers in summer is a wise son, but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.

The riches of vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.

And as for me, thou sustained me in my integrity and hast seated me before thy face for ever.

The perfection of the upright shall guide them in the way, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Better is the poor that walks in his integrity than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will come upon the fruit of the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and upon the glory of his high looks.

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

He also that is negligent in his work is brother to him that is the great spendthrift.

I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding,

Better is a little with righteousness than a great number of fruits with injustice.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.

As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

In his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor and with it sustains his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.