Bible Verses About Taking Advantage
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking advantage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,061 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 4:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Taking Advantage
1 Thessalonians 4:6172 votes
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.
Leviticus 19:13131 votes
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.
Proverbs 28:8113 votes
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Micah 2:1-2106 votes
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.
James 5:498 votes
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.
Proverbs 22:22-2384 votes
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs 11:179 votes
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
Ephesians 4:2877 votes
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.
Luke 12:1576 votes
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.
Proverbs 22:1669 votes
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Jeremiah 22:1369 votes
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;
Luke 6:3167 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Exodus 22:21-2464 votes
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:1464 votes
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:
Exodus 22:2160 votes
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Proverbs 22:2246 votes
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Amos 8:4-634 votes
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Luke 16:1034 votes
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Amos 5:1133 votes
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Proverbs 14:3130 votes
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 20:1029 votes
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:5-729 votes
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Psalms 15:526 votes
He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
1 John 4:1726 votes
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
James 5:1-624 votes
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
What does the Bible say about taking advantage?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 4:6 on the subject of taking advantage. Across 2,061 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 19:13, Proverbs 28:8, Micah 2:1-2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.