12 Bible Verses about Unjust Gain

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

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

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 rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long 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 children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.