45 Bible Verses about Saving Money
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On the first [day] of the week, each one of you {put aside} [something], saving up {to whatever extent he has prospered}, in order that whenever I come, at that time collections do not take place.
{For wisdom offers protection like money offers protection}. But knowledge [has] an advantage--wisdom restores life to its possessor.
Divide your share in seven or in eight, for you do not know what disaster will happen on the earth.
Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make [for] all the inhabitants of the land.
And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up."
He who is good will leave an inheritance to {his grandchildren}, and stored up for the righteous [is] the wealth of a sinner.
You may spend the money for anything {that you desire}, for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything {that you desire}, and you shall eat [it] there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.
He who hurries for wealth is {a man with an evil eye}, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.
There is one who gives yet {grows richer}, but he who withholds {what is right} only [finds] need.
"No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.
For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
And Joseph collected all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they were buying. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharaoh.
Jehoash said to the priests, "All of the money for the sacred things that is brought to the temple of Yahweh, {the money taxed at its proper value for each person} [and] all of the money which comes upon the heart of a man to bring to the temple of Yahweh,
Wealth [gained] from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers {little by little} will increase it.
Now, a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit,"
You yourself will eat but not be satisfied; your hunger [will be] in your midst, and you will put away, but you will not save, and what you save I will hand over to the sword.
So I concluded that wisdom [is] better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.
A house and wealth [are] an inheritance [from] fathers, but from Yahweh [comes] a woman who is prudent.
The ants [are] a people [who are] not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?
Thus says Yahweh, "[The] wise man must not boast in his wisdom, and the warrior must not boast in his might, [the] wealthy man must not boast in his wealth.
He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.
Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their {hunger} and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be their stumbling block.
The ransom of the life of a man [is] his wealth, but the poor does not receive a threat.
You have sown much but have harvested little. You have eaten without [being] satisfied; {you have drunk without being satiated}; you have worn clothes without [being] warm; the one who earns wages puts it in {a pouch with holes}.'
And he commanded them that they take along nothing for the journey except only a staff--no bread, no traveler's bag, no money in their belts--
Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.
and that no one was able to buy or to sell except the one who had the mark--the name of the beast or the number of his name.
For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation].
So they took the money [and] did as they were told, and spread abroad this report among the Jews until this very day.
Now Simon, [when he] saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money,
She considers a field and buys it, from the fruit of {her hand} she plants a vineyard.
So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over."
(since the redemption price for their life is costly and it always fails),
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