12 Bible Verses about Unjust Gain

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

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.

He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.

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.

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire,

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

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, [but] he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.