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100 Bible Verses about Business

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 4,116 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 11:1 ESV / 3,706 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 3,561 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 3,404 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.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 3,363 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 10:4 ESV / 3,165 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 2,956 helpful votes

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

Psalm 112:5 ESV / 2,805 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 2,782 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 2,777 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 2,753 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.

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 2,678 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 2,667 helpful votes

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

Luke 16:10 ESV / 2,662 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 13:4 ESV / 2,600 helpful votes

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

Mark 8:36 ESV / 2,469 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2,227 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.

Jeremiah 22:13 ESV / 2,202 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,

James 5:4 ESV / 2,177 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.

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 2,128 helpful votes

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

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 2,072 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.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2,041 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.

Exodus 35:35 ESV / 1,995 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.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 1,723 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.

Leviticus 19:10 ESV / 1,682 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.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,672 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 1,636 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.

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 1,614 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 1,603 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Luke 19:13 ESV / 1,592 helpful votes

Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 1,585 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.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 1,573 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.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 1,565 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 1,554 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 1,548 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 1,525 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 1,501 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 1:17-19 ESV / 1,489 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;

James 2:26 ESV / 1,487 helpful votes

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

Colossians 4:1 ESV / 1,479 helpful votes

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

Mark 7:20-22 ESV / 1,476 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.

1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 1,474 helpful votes

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

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 1,472 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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,461 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Mark 5:36 ESV / 1,451 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 1,418 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.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 1,416 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,

Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 1,399 helpful votes

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

Nehemiah 6:9 ESV / 1,374 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.

Deuteronomy 15:13-14 ESV / 1,361 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.

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 1,348 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 19:14 ESV / 1,344 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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1,333 helpful votes

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

Micah 6:8 ESV / 1,280 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?

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 1,270 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 21:25 ESV / 1,268 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 1,259 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 25:14 ESV / 1,256 helpful votes

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

Titus 2:9-12 ESV / 1,232 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,

Amos 2:6-8 ESV / 1,212 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 20:23 ESV / 1,207 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:35 ESV / 1,204 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 1,173 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 25:13 ESV / 1,142 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 15:1-23 ESV / 1,111 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. ...

Deuteronomy 11:1-32 ESV / 1,106 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 25:13-15 ESV / 1,103 helpful votes

“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 1,077 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 1,076 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.

Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 1,074 helpful votes

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

Luke 16:15 ESV / 1,072 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 22:6 ESV / 1,068 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 1,027 helpful votes

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

Romans 13:7 ESV / 1,027 helpful votes

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

Job 31:13-14 ESV / 1,023 helpful votes

“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Leviticus 19:36 ESV / 1,007 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.

Leviticus 19:35-36 ESV / 993 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.

Proverbs 14:15 ESV / 988 helpful votes

The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.

Proverbs 23:7 ESV / 980 helpful votes

For he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Habakkuk 2:2 ESV / 950 helpful votes

And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 940 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 2:7 ESV / 938 helpful votes

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’

Ecclesiastes 8:16 ESV / 926 helpful votes

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,

Luke 1:37 ESV / 920 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 915 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.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 912 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 911 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 863 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Leviticus 19:9 ESV / 861 helpful votes

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 858 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 827 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 799 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:18 ESV / 797 helpful votes

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 793 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,

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 779 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;

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 768 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 730 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.

John 16:33 ESV / 715 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 694 helpful votes

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

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 563 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

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