These bible verses can be used for reflection or study, and in talks or events. It may be useful to contextualise them. For this refer to the Trade Justice campaign booklet or talk to your regional support worker who will be able to help.

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Unfair Trade Rules and Laws

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Isaiah 10: 1-3 (NIV)
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar?

James 5: 4 (NIV)
The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

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Unfair Deals

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Proverbs 11: 1 (NIV)
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are his delight.

Proverbs 20: 10 (NIV)
Differing weights and differing measures - the Lord detests them both.

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Trade and Greed

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Ezekiel 28: 16–18 (NIV)
Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned… By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you

James 5: 1- 6(NIV)
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you.

Amos 2:6-7 (NIV)
This is what the LORD says:
For three sins of Israel,
even for four, I will not turn back {my wrath}.
They sell the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals.
They trample on the heads of the poor
as upon the dust of the ground
and deny justice to the oppressed.

Amos 5:11-15 (NIV)
You trample on the poor
and force him to give you grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them,
Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
Hate evil, love good;
maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy
on the remnant of Joseph.

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Jesus and Trade

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John 2: 13-17 (The Message Version)
Jesus went straight into the temple and threw out everyone who had set up shop, buying and selling. He kicked over the tables of land sharks and dove merchants. He quoted the verse: "My house was designated a house of prayer. You have made it a hang out for thieves"