19 Bible Verses about Financial Advice

Remember that Jehovah your God gives you the strength to make a living. That is how he keeps the promise he made to your fathers.

This is what Jehovah says: Do not let wise people brag about their wisdom. Do not let strong people brag about their strength. Do not let rich people brag about their riches. If they want to brag, instead let them advocate (glory) (celebrate) that they understand and know me. They should advocate that I, Jehovah, act out of love, righteousness, and justice on the earth. This kind of celebration pleases me, declares Jehovah.

Jesus said: Be careful, do not covet, for life does not come from your possessions.

You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).

Looking around Jesus said to his disciples: It is hard for those who have riches to enter into the kingdom of God! The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus repeated it again: Children, it is hard to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you? You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make yourselves purses that do not get old, a treasure in heaven where moth and rest cannot corrupt and thieves cannot steal. Your heart will be where your treasure is.

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.

I know how to be poor. I also know how to live with abundance. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have abundance and to suffer need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.' A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. Test me, said Jehovah of Hosts, and see if I will open the windows of heaven and pour out showers of blessing upon you until there is no more want.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.

Honor Jehovah with your wealth and give him the best of all you have.

Seek (desire) (require) (serve) first the kingdom of God and his righteousness [continuously] and all these things will be added to you.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth, with gain. This too is vanity. When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to see them? The sleep of the workingman is pleasant, whether he eats little or much. However the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.read more.
I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. I have seen riches being hoarded by their owner to his downfall (distress). When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he fathered a son, then there was no support for him. We entered this world with nothing and naked and we will leave this world with nothing and naked. This also is a serious evil. Just as we came we will go. Whatever profit or gain we earned we loose as if we labored for the wind. All his days he eats in darkness. He has much sorrow and anger with his sickness. This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance). For every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has empowered him to eat because of them. He should receive his reward and rejoice in his labor. This is the gift of God. He will not often remember the years of his life. This is because God keeps him occupied with the gladness (pleasure) of his heart.

Render therefore to all their due. Provide tribute to whom tribute is due. Give custom to whom custom is owed. Render fear to whom fear is owed and offer honor to whom honor is deserved. Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law.

Do not give pledges and be guarantors for debts. If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.

He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil.