20 Bible Verses about Finances

Your lives should be untainted by love for money. Be content with what you have; for God Himself has said, "I will never, never let go your hand: I will never never forsake you."

For from love of money all sorts of evils arise; and some have so hankered after money as to be led astray from the faith and be pierced through with countless sorrows.

"But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.

So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables.

They sold their lands and other property, and distributed the proceeds among all, according to every one's necessities.

On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on.

"Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --

At the same time he hoped that Paul would give him money; and for this reason he sent for him the oftener to converse with him.

and gave it to the Apostles, and distribution was made to every one according to his wants.

See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

for we brought nothing into the world, nor can we carry anything out of it;

"Whereupon his master, touched with compassion, set him free and forgave him the debt.

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan taken possession of your heart, that you should try to deceive the Holy Spirit and dishonestly keep back part of the price paid you for this land?

If therefore you have not proved yourselves faithful in dealing with the wealth that is tainted with fraud, who will entrust to you the true good?

Entering the Temple, Jesus drove out all who were buying and selling there, and overturned the money-changers' tables and the seats of the pigeon-dealers.

And he called ten of his servants and gave each of them a pound, instructing them to trade with the money during his absence.

Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;

But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.

For where your wealth is, there also will your heart be.

but you--this is what you say: 'If a man says to his father or mother, That is consecrated, whatever it is, which otherwise you should have received from me--