27 Bible Verses about Business Ethics

He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.

And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.

Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.