12 Bible Verses about Unjust Gain

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.

He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

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.

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.

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.

Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!

Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor, but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

Woe to him that covets ill-gotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may escape from the power of evil!

A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.