27 Bible Verses about Business Ethics

He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

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

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

Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he knew nothing [that was] with him, save the bread which he ate. And Joseph was comely, and well-favored.

Moreover they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, inasmuch as he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise. Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.

And as for me, thou uphold me in my integrity, and set me before thy face forever.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

He also that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.

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

Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Thou shall give him his hire in his day, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it, lest he cry against thee to LORD, and it be sin to thee.