Dishonest Gain

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.

And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →

For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, — read the full passage →

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much. — read the full passage →

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth? — read the full passage →

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood about Moses from the morning unto the evening. — read the full passage →

For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; — read the full passage →

Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom. — read the full passage →