28 Bible Verses about Money, Uses Of

So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burying-ground for strangers.

For none of them was in want, for as many of them as were owners of farms or houses proceeded to sell them, one by one, and continued to bring the money received for the things sold

But a man named Ananias, in partnership with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and, with his wife's full knowledge of it, kept back for themselves a part of the money and brought only a part of it and put it at the disposal of the apostles.

and were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought with a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

and I heard what seemed to be a voice from the midst of the four living creatures say: "Wheat, fifty cents a quart, barley, fifty cents for three quarts! But you must not injure the oil and wine."

The businessmen of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because no one can buy their cargoes anymore -- cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones, fine linen, silk, and scarlet, all kinds of citron wood, all kinds of goods in ivory and costly woods, bronze, iron, and marble, cinnamon, spices, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the lives of human beings.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money,"

Surely it could have been sold for a large sum and the money given to the poor."

It might have been sold for more than sixty dollars, and the money have been given to the poor." So they kept on grumbling at her.

"Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars and the money given to the poor?"

So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.

When he had contracted with the laborers at twenty cents a day, he sent them off to his vineyard.

See, the wages that you have kept back from the laborers who reaped your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I came back I could have collected my principal with interest.

So why did you not put my money into the bank? In that case, when I came back I could have gotten interest on my principal.'

And if you ever lend to people expecting to get it back, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice lending to one another, expecting to get it back in full. But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your Teacher pay the temple tax?"

So give us your opinion on the question: Is it right to pay Caesar the poll-tax, or not?" But Jesus saw their malicious plot, and so asked, "Why are you testing me so, you hypocrites? Show me a poll-tax coin."

Should we pay it, or should we not?" Now because He saw their pretense, He said to them, "Why are you testing me so? Bring me a twenty-cent coin to look at."

Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" But He detected their cunning, and said to them, "Show me a twenty-cent coin. Whose picture and title does it bear?" They answered, "Caesar's."

So they met and held a consultation with the elders, and bribed the soldiers with a large sum of money, and said to them, "Tell the people that His disciples came by night, while we were sleeping, and stole Him away.

At the same time he was hoping to get money from Paul, and so he kept on sending for him and talking with him.

Once as we were on our way to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had the gift of magical fortune-telling, and continued to make great profits for her owners by fortune-telling.

The high priests picked up the money and said, "It is not legal to put it into the consecrated treasury, for it is blood money."

And Jesus went into the temple and drove out all the buyers and sellers, and turned the money-changers' tables and the dove-dealers' seats upside down,

Then they reached Jerusalem, and He went into the temple and began to drive out of it those who were buying and selling things in it. Then He upset the money-changers' tables and the dove-dealers' counters,

And in the temple court He found the dealers in cattle, sheep, and pigeons; the money-changers, too, seated at their tables.