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100 Bible Verses about Business Ethics

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 456 helpful votes

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 293 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 290 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 290 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 281 helpful votes

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

Mark 8:36 ESV / 251 helpful votes

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 232 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 196 helpful votes

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 194 helpful votes

“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Isaiah 1:17-19 ESV / 184 helpful votes

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 169 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 163 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Luke 16:15 ESV / 152 helpful votes

And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Proverbs 20:23 ESV / 151 helpful votes

Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 145 helpful votes

“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 133 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Mark 7:20-22 ESV / 128 helpful votes

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

Leviticus 19:35-36 ESV / 127 helpful votes

“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 117 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Luke 16:10 ESV / 113 helpful votes

“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 96 helpful votes

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 95 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 94 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 88 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 86 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 86 helpful votes

“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”

Leviticus 19:14 ESV / 86 helpful votes

You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 15:13-14 ESV / 83 helpful votes

And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 83 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 80 helpful votes

You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Leviticus 19:10 ESV / 78 helpful votes

And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 77 helpful votes

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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

James 4:17 ESV / 75 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 72 helpful votes

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Psalm 112:5 ESV / 69 helpful votes

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.

Titus 2:9-12 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 67 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 67 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 66 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 65 helpful votes

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 64 helpful votes

So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Amos 2:6-8 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals— those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned; they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Leviticus 25:14 ESV / 60 helpful votes

And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 59 helpful votes

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Jeremiah 22:13 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,

1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 58 helpful votes

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Mark 5:36 ESV / 58 helpful votes

But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”

Leviticus 19:36 ESV / 58 helpful votes

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

James 5:4 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Leviticus 19:35 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

Deuteronomy 25:13 ESV / 55 helpful votes

“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 53 helpful votes

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Psalm 128:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Exodus 35:35 ESV / 53 helpful votes

He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

Colossians 4:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 51 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Proverbs 13:23 ESV / 50 helpful votes

The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

Deuteronomy 11:1-32 ESV / 50 helpful votes

“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day, and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, ...

Deuteronomy 15:1-23 ESV / 49 helpful votes

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed. Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess— if only you will strictly obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. ...

Proverbs 21:25 ESV / 48 helpful votes

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Psalm 24:3-4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 46 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 3:4-5 ESV / 46 helpful votes

So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

James 2:26 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Nehemiah 6:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes

For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

Proverbs 19:1 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 39 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Nehemiah 1:7 ESV / 39 helpful votes

We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Proverbs 18:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.

Genesis 31:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes

You know that I have served your father with all my strength,

Psalm 78:72 ESV / 36 helpful votes

With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.

1 Peter 2:18-20 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.

Romans 2:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.

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