Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. –James 4:7

Solomon’s business friendship with the King of Tyre: a man compared to Satan (1 Kings 5).

Correction (24:00): the King of Tyre reference is in Ezekiel 28:17-18:

Your heart became proud
    on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
    because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
    I made a spectacle of you before kings.
By your many sins and dishonest trade
    you have desecrated your sanctuaries.

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”

Therefore,

“Come out from them
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”

And,

“I will be a Father to you,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”
–2 Corinthians 6:14-18–

I’m not Amish when it comes to business ethics. I think their position is too extreme. That would mean Christian communism and living in Acts 2:44-45 continuously, isolated on a farm from the rest of the world with other Amish farmers. If anything, I currently lean somewhere between a Mennonite and Puritan tradesman mentality, where the businessman interacts with the secular world as customers, in a more cautious and detached way, but not plumb in the midst of non-Christian coworkers every workday. My objective is to “not be yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Cor. 6:14). Self-employment, home-based business, remote work, independent contracting, and mom-and-pop shops can all conform with a position like this. Its what you see the men trying to do in Little House on the Prairie most of the time.

Art Gish, Beyond the Rat Race.

—, and Gary North. “Decentralist Economics” and “Free Market Capitalism.” Wealth and Poverty: Four Christian Views of Economics. 

John R. Rice, The Unequal Yoke.

Irvin Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America.

Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman.

Larry Burkett, Business by the Book.

John Eckhardt, Prayers That Rout Demons and Break Curses.