12 Bible Verses about Unjust Gain
Most Relevant Verses
Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.
He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.
He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.
And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you [have] made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.
Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.
A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, [but] those who hate unjust gain will have long days.
Woe to [him who] obtains profit [from] evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune!
He who is good will leave an inheritance to {his grandchildren}, and stored up for the righteous [is] the wealth of a sinner.
Bible Theasaurus
- Gain (180 instances)
- Unjust (69 instances)
From Thematic Bible
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.
He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages.
He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.
