Bible Verses About Fair And Just Business Practices
Bible Verses About Fair And Just Business Practices
These verses collectively emphasize the importance of honesty, fairness, and integrity in business dealings, underscoring that these practices are not only socially and ethically vital but are also commanded and valued by God.
1. Leviticus 19:35-36
- "Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt."
2. Proverbs 11:1
- "The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him."
3. Proverbs 16:11
- "Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are of his making."
4. Proverbs 20:10
- "Differing weights and differing measures—the Lord detests them both."
5. Micah 6:11-12
- "Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights? Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully."
6. Luke 6:31 (NIV)
- "Do to others as you would have them do to you."
7. James 5:4
- "Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty."
8. Deuteronomy 25:13-16
- "Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light. Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly."
9. Proverbs 22:16
- "One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty."
10. Proverbs 28:8
- "Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor."
11. Jeremiah 22:13
- "Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor."
12. Amos 8:4-6
- "Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land, saying, 'When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?'—skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales, buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat."
13. Psalm 15:1-2, 5
- "Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain? The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart...who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken."
14. Proverbs 13:11
- "Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow."
15. Proverbs 21:6
- "A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare."
16. Proverbs 28:20
- "A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished."
17. Ecclesiastes 5:10
- "Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless."
18. Matthew 7:12
- "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
19. Hebrews 13:5
- "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.'"
20. Isaiah 1:17
- "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
21. Zechariah 7:9-10
- "This is what the Lord Almighty said: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.'"
22. Malachi 3:5
- "'So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,' says the Lord Almighty."
These additional verses reinforce the biblical principles of honesty, integrity, fairness, and compassion in all business and personal dealings, highlighting the importance of ethical behavior and justice.
