28 Bible Verses about Buying and selling

And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter's field, as a burial-place for foreigners.

And they all, with one consent, began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a farm, and I must go and see it; I pray you, have me excused.

Nor, indeed, was there any needy person among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, sold them, and brought the prices of what had been sold,

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them; I pray you, have me excused.

Then Jesus, lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?

For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him: Buy what we need for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenices of barley for a denarius; and as to the oil and the wine, see that you do no injustice.

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and lament over her, because no one buys their merchandise any more; the merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones, and of pearls, and of fine linen and purple, and of silk and scarlet; and every kind of thyme wood, and every kind of vessel of ivory, and every kind of vessel of most costly wood, and of brass, and of iron, and of marble: and cinnamon and amomum and incense, and ointment and frankincense, and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts and sheep, and horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.

For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

And not many days after, the younger son, taking with him all that was his, left home for a distant country, and there wasted his property in riotous living.

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and drove out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves, and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

And they came into Jerusalem; and Jesus entered the temple, and began to drive out those who sold, and those who bought in the temple; and he overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves. And he suffered no one to carry a vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written, My house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of robbers.

And he went into the temple, and began to drive out those who were selling in it, and those who were buying, and said to them: It is written, My house is a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

And he found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sit ting. And when he had made a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also, and the oxen, and he poured out the money of the money-changers, and overthrew their tables; and said to those who sold doves: Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not; and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not: and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.

Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain;

And he causes all, small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or on their forehead, and that no one should be able to buy or sell, but he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men.

because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without spot and blemish,

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you; and these will stealthily introduce ruinous sects, and deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction:

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field, which, when a man finds it, he hides; and for the joy it gives, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking goodly pearls. When he finds one pearl of great value, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys it.

But the wise answered, saying: Lest there may not be enough for us and you, go rather to those who sell, and buy for your selves.

I counsel you to buy of me gold that has been tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness may not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.

Or, what will a man give as a ransom for his life?

But Peter said to him: Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God might be purchased with money.