GOD's Business Principles

I believe that every business transaction should include the presence of God. Religion and business are not two separate things; they are one.

We should be honest in the sight of all men.
Rom 12:17
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

We should be willing in all things to live honestly.
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

We should not be slothful in business.
Rom 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Diligence in business wins respect.
Pro 22:29
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men].

Study to do your own business.
1Th 4:11
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

We must have just measurers and weights.
Lev 19:35,36
35. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt

We are never to rob nor oppress the poor.
Pro 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

We are never to afflict widows or orphans.
Exd 22:22,23
22. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
23. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

We should not vex nor oppress a stranger.
Exd 22:21
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Pay hired help fairly as promised and do not rob him.
Lev 19:13
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him]: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Never should we steal nor deal falsely.
Lev 19:11
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

God will punish those who do not regard the above principles.
Mal 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Ill-gotten riches do not profit.
Jer 17:11
[As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

Know this, that such riches are corrupted.
James 5:1-6
1. Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
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.
5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6. Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath.
Isa 2:17
17. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18. And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Rev 6:15
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Pro 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Luke 12:20, 21. It is foolish to lay up treasure and not be rich toward God.
Luke 12:20,21
20. But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21. So [is] he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Some men rob God.
Mal 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Those who rob God should know that they are cursed.
Mal 3:9
Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.