Bible Verses about “taking advantage”
The Bible contains 19 verses about taking advantage across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“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.›”
“‹And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.›”
“Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.”
“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.”
“If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;”
“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”
“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.”
“¶ A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.”
“Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
“¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.”
“¶ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.”
“¶ 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:”
“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.”
“¶ 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.”
“And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.”
“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;”
“¶ Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:”
“For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.”