19 Bible Verses about Financial Advice
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And remember Jehovah thy God; for he gave to thee strength to make wealth in order to set up his covenant, which he sware to our fathers, as this day.
Thus said Jehovah, The wise shall not boast in his wisdom, and the strong shall not boast in his strength; the rich shall not boast in his riches: But he boasting shall boast in this, to understand and know me, that I am Jehovah, doing mercy, judgment and justice in the earth: for in these I delighted, says Jehovah.
And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.
None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And Jesus having looked round, said to his disciples, With what difficulty shall they having property enter into the kingdom of God And his disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus again having answered, says to them, How difficult, children, is it for those trusting in property to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier labor for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts. For where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.
And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And I know how to be humble, and I know how to abound in every thing: and in all I am instructed also to be full and to hunger, and to abound and to be in want. I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.
Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency.
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.
Honor Jehovah from thy substance, and from the first-fruits of all thy produce.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity. In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes? The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.read more.
There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil. And those riches shall perish by evil labor: and he begetting a son, and not anything in his hand. According as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked he shall turn back to go as he came, and he shall not take away anything in his labor that shall go in his hand. And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind? Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger. Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion. Also every man which God gave to him wealth and riches, and permitted him to eat from it, and to lift up his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this the gift of God himself. For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God humbles him in the gladness of his heart.
Therefore restore debts to all; to whom tribute, tribute; to whom recompense, recompense; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour. Owe ye nothing to none, except to love one another: for he loving another has completed the law.
Thou shalt not be with those striking the hand with those pledging for debts. If not to thee to requite, why shall he take thy bed from under thee?
The rich one will rule over the poor, and he borrowing, a servant to the man lending.
Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.
He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;