Business Ethics

Summarize the following scriptures and describe how they relate to business ethics.
o Especially point out how this makes Christian business ethics different than secular business
ethics.
• Type your answers under each scripture.
• Give me at least 3 sentences per answer, but longer is okay if you feel the need.
• Most importantly, I am looking for your thoughts and not a regurgitation of the book. God bless!
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1. Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to
answer every man.
2. Matthew 6:1 – 4
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no
reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound
a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may
have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let
not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy
Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
3. I Corinthians 13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and
have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Romans 12:17
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
5. Colossians 3:22 – 25
22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as
menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as
to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong
which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
6. Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for
this is the law and the prophets.
7. Romans 13:8 – 9
8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
8. Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members
one of another.