27 Bible Verses about Business Ethics

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

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.

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.

in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.