18 Bible Verses about investing
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for this corruptible body must be invested with incorruptibility, this mortal be invested with immortality.
I advise you in like manner to lay out your fallacious treasure in acts of charity, that when you die, they may secure to you everlasting habitations.
let the things above, and not such worldly matters be the object of your thoughts.
should not you then have lodged my money at the banker's, and so at my return I should have received my own with interest.
but he that had received one, went to dig a hole in the ground, and hid his lord's money.
Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
and he called ten of his servants, to whom he deliver'd ten pounds: improve that, said he, till I return.
and what you heard me deliver in the presence of many, intrust to such persons of integrity as are qualified to instruct others
to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his respective ability, and then set out on his journey.
for the time will shortly come, when your enemies shall open their trenches before thee, hem you in, and closely besiege you:
accordingly he that had received five talents, came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, you delivered to me five talents: besides those, there's five talents more, which I have gain'd.
let an air of modesty appear in all your discourse; and let it be seasoned with discretion, in making a proper reply, when you are call'd into question.
Now faith is the foundation of our hopes of happiness, and the persuasion we have about things not evident to our senses.
upon his return, being confirm'd king, he order'd the servants, he had trusted with the money, to appear, and inform him, what improvement each of them had made.
those antient rebels in the time of Noah, when the divine forbearance waited, till the ark was quite finish'd, in which only eight persons were saved by means of the water.
if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?