Bible Verses About Exploitation

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

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;

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

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.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

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.

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.