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What does the Bible say about taking advantage?
14 verses about taking advantage, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.
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Bible verses about taking advantage
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 — That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 6 votes
- Leviticus 19:13 — Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. 5 votes
- Proverbs 28:8 — He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. 4 votes
- Micah 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 4 votes
- Proverbs 11:1 — A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. 3 votes
- Proverbs 22:16 — He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. 3 votes
- Proverbs 22:22 — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: 3 votes
- Jeremiah 22:13 — Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; 3 votes
- Luke 6:31 — And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 3 votes
- Luke 12:15 — And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. 3 votes
- Ephesians 4:28 — 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. 3 votes
- James 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 3 votes
- Exodus 22:21 — Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 2 votes
- Deuteronomy 24:14 — Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 2 votes
Where these verses are
Proverbs (4), Luke (2), Exodus (1), Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Jeremiah (1), Micah (1), Ephesians (1), 1 Thessalonians (1), James (1)
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