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Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 2,605 helpful votes
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 2,487 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.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 2,280 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 2,106 helpful votes
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 2,080 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 / 1,915 helpful votes
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 1,697 helpful votes
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 1,642 helpful votes
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 1,631 helpful votes
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 1,629 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 / 1,627 helpful votes
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 1,613 helpful votes
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 1,587 helpful votes
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Luke 16:10 ESV / 1,532 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.
Mark 8:36 ESV / 1,490 helpful votes
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Psalm 112:5 ESV / 1,486 helpful votes
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 1,476 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.
Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 1,413 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 22:13 ESV / 1,249 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 / 1,221 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.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 1,201 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.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,179 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 1,142 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.
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 1,133 helpful votes
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 1,126 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 19:11 ESV / 1,122 helpful votes
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 1,117 helpful votes
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 1,114 helpful votes
“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
Exodus 35:35 ESV / 1,110 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.
Leviticus 19:10 ESV / 1,108 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 19:17 ESV / 1,091 helpful votes
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 1,084 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.
Isaiah 1:17-19 ESV / 1,082 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;
Mark 7:20-22 ESV / 1,068 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.
2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 1,044 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,
Deuteronomy 15:13-14 ESV / 1,044 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.
Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 1,028 helpful votes
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 1,021 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 979 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Genesis 2:15 ESV / 975 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Leviticus 19:14 ESV / 974 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.
Luke 19:13 ESV / 973 helpful votes
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 959 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?
Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 947 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.”
1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 926 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 / 923 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.
James 2:26 ESV / 911 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 911 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Colossians 4:1 ESV / 904 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 877 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Titus 2:9-12 ESV / 863 helpful votes
Slaves 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,
Proverbs 20:23 ESV / 863 helpful votes
Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
Amos 2:6-8 ESV / 848 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.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 837 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?
Mark 5:36 ESV / 832 helpful votes
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Proverbs 23:7 ESV / 827 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.
Leviticus 19:35 ESV / 813 helpful votes
“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Luke 16:15 ESV / 811 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.
Deuteronomy 15:1-23 ESV / 806 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 21:6 ESV / 804 helpful votes
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Deuteronomy 25:13 ESV / 801 helpful votes
“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
Deuteronomy 11:1-32 ESV / 801 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, …
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 795 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.
Nehemiah 6:9 ESV / 789 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.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 783 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Proverbs 21:25 ESV / 773 helpful votes
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 746 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.
Leviticus 25:14 ESV / 743 helpful votes
And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 733 helpful votes
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
Leviticus 19:35-36 ESV / 729 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 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 715 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 19:36 ESV / 704 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.
Proverbs 14:15 ESV / 690 helpful votes
The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 678 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Job 31:13-14 ESV / 675 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?
Deuteronomy 25:13-15 ESV / 674 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.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 667 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 664 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 11:3 ESV / 645 helpful votes
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 641 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Romans 13:7 ESV / 620 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.
Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 595 helpful votes
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 586 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 …
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 585 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Romans 8:18 ESV / 579 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.
Colossians 1:10 ESV / 552 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.
Habakkuk 2:2 ESV / 551 helpful votes
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
Deuteronomy 2:7 ESV / 545 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.”’
Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 543 helpful votes
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 526 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, …
Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 523 helpful votes
Slaves, 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 servants 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 slave or 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.
Ecclesiastes 8:16 ESV / 515 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 6:31 ESV / 498 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
2 Peter 3:14 ESV / 483 helpful votes
Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
Matthew 25:23 ESV / 465 helpful votes
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Romans 12:10-11 ESV / 456 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV / 454 helpful votes
Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”
1 John 2:5-6 ESV / 453 helpful votes
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 442 helpful votes
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 426 helpful votes
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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