Quotes about Ethics
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
— Ezekiel 22:27
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
— Ezekiel 22:29
If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
— Ezekiel 33:8
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
— Ezekiel 33:17
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
— Ezekiel 45:10
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
— Hosea 12:7
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
— Joel 3:3
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
— Amos 3:10
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
— Amos 5:7
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
— Amos 5:11
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
— Amos 8:4
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
— Amos 8:5