12 Bible Verses about Unjust Gain

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust dishonest gain. Greed takes away the life of its owner.

He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.

Better to be poor with righteousness than rich with injustice.

Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.

He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.

I strike my fist at your dishonest gain and your acts of bloodshed.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.

The ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor. He who hates covetousness will prolong his days.

He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil!

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.