Dishonest Gain

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

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

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

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

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and 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 judgment.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

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

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

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not 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 honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. — read the full passage →

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

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

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to 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 recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.

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

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

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

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. — read the full passage →