48 Bible Verses about Finances
Most Relevant Verses
For wisdom is protection just as money is protection,
But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity.
Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,”
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without cost.
Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.
When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.
Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles,
But the one who gathers by labor increases it.
and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.
then you shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.
For thus says the Lord, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.”
When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.”
For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
At the same time too, he was hoping that money would be given him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and converse with him.
The rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.
Only no accounting shall be made with them for the money delivered into their hands, for they deal faithfully.”
and lay them at the apostles’ feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.
And strangers will be filled with your strength
And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;
“Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance.
Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors.
Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
“He swallows riches,
But will vomit them up;
God will expel them from his belly.
For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.
“You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.
There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more,
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.
You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.”
“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the Lord which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.
For the Lord your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
Do not trust in oppression
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’
Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the Lord of hosts.
The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.
But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God,”
Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Her priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”
