48 Bible Verses about Finances

Indeed, wisdom gives protection, just like money does, but it's better to know that wisdom gives life, to those who have mastered it.

Whoever loves money will never have enough money. Whoever loves luxury will not be content with abundance. This also is pointless.

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you or abandon you."

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first of all your produce,

"Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters! Also, you that have no money, come, buy, and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Apportion what you have into seven, or even eight parts, because you don't know what disaster might befall the land.

When possessions increase, so does the number of consumers; therefore what good are they to their owners, except to look at them?

"I'm telling you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they will welcome you into eternal homes.

So the Twelve called the whole group of disciples together and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect messages from God in order to wait on tables.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but whoever works diligently increases his prosperity.

They made it their practice to sell their possessions and goods and to distribute the proceeds to anyone who was in need.

After the Sabbath ends, each of you should set aside and save something from your surplus in proportion to what you have, so that no collections will have to be made when I arrive.

In that case, convert it into cash, secure the money, and then bring it to the place where the LORD will choose.

For this is what the LORD says: "You were sold for nothing, and you'll be redeemed without money."

After all the money had been spent throughout Egypt and Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and demanded, "Give us food! Why should we die right in front of you? Our money is spent!"

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?

At the same time he was hoping to receive a bribe from Paul, and so he would send for him frequently to talk with him.

The wealthy rule over the poor, and anyone who borrows is a slave to the lender.

But you won't need to force them to be accountable for money already paid to them, since they're faithful."

and lay it at the apostles' feet. Then it was distributed to anyone who needed it.

so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners.

Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in rich food.

Now I'm ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things, but rather you yourselves. Children should not have to support their parents, but parents their children.

Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain it takes away the lives of those who possess it.

So Joseph kept on accumulating all the money that was to be found throughout Egypt and Canaan in exchange for the grain that was being purchased. He stored the money in Pharaoh's palace.

"Though he swallows wealth, he will vomit it; God will dislodge it from his stomach.

Nothing to this world we bring; from it take we nothing.

"You turned away in pursuit of abundance, but look at how little you found! What you did manage to bring home, I blew away! And why?' declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "It's because of my house! It lies in ruins while each of you runs off to his own house!

Those who give freely gain even more; others hold back what they owe, becoming even poorer.

"If I've put my confidence in gold, if I've told gold, "You're my security,'

You have sowed much but have reaped little. You have eaten but don't have enough to become satisfied. You have drunk but don't have enough to become intoxicated. You have clothed yourself but don't have enough to keep warm. And the hired laborer deposits his salary in a bag full of holes!'"

"Go to the high priest Hilkiah, so he can count the money that has been brought into the LORD's Temple by the doorkeepers who have been gathering it from the people.

For the LORD your God will bless you just as he promised. You are to lend to many nations but not borrow. Also, you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you."

Don't trust in oppression or put false hope in stealing; if you become wealthy, do not set your heart on it.

But remember the LORD your God, because he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he promised by an oath to your ancestors, as is the case today.

The master of that servant had compassion and released him, canceling his debt.

Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

So if you haven't been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

Then Jesus went into the Temple, threw out everyone who was selling and buying in the Temple, and overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten coins. He told them, "Invest this money until I come back.'

Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths,

And I'll prevent the devourer from harming you, so that he does not destroy the crops of your land. Nor will the vines in your fields drop their fruit," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

The person who is taught the word should share all his goods with his teacher.

"Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. So put me to the test in this right now," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and see if I won't throw open the windows of heaven for you and pour out on you blessing without measure.

because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

But you say, "Whoever tells his father or his mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me has been given to God,"

Her leaders judge for the money, her priests teach only when they're paid, and her prophets prophesy for cash. Even so, don't they all rely on the LORD as they ask, "The LORD is among us, is he not? Nothing bad can possibly happen to us!'