27 Bible Verses about Business Ethics

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent enriches.

The soul of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied.

A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners.

Therefore, dear friends, [because you] are waiting for these [things], make every effort to be found at peace, spotless and unblemished in him.

You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

"There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.

And he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and {he did not worry about anything} except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was {well built and handsome}.

They did not [have to] settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they [were] dealing honestly.

Then the [other] administrators and satraps {began to seek} to find pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom}, but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption} {because} he was trustworthy, and no negligence or {corruption} {could be found in him}.

" 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume.

Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.

Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise. It has no chief, officer, or ruler. In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.

He who gathers in the summer [is] a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest [is] a child who brings shame.

He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks {sense}.

Wealth [gained] from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little} will increase it.

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

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.

And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against {Mount Zion} and Jerusalem, "I will punish the {arrogance} of the king of Assyria and {his haughtiness}."

They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.

Even he who is slack in his work, he is brother to a master of destruction.

I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking {sense};

Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice.

He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.

[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."

On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down}, because [he is] poor and {his life depends on it}; [do this] so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.