34 Bible Verses about Money

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Acts 8:20

But Peter said to him, Thy silver with thee, may it be for destruction, because thou thought to obtain the gift of God by money.

Matthew 17:26

And Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Therefore the sons are free.

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Matthew 10:9

Acquire no gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts,

Mark 12:41

And having sat down opposite the treasury, Jesus watched how the multitude cast money into the treasury, and many rich men cast in much.

Interest » loaning » Money

Exodus 22:25

If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Ezekiel 18:13

has given forth upon interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.

Psalm 15:5

he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Judas » Returns » Money » To jewish rulers

Matthew 27:3-10

Then Judas, who betrayed him, after seeing that he was condemned, having repented, he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders, saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it. And having cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and after going away, he hanged himself. read more.
And after taking the silver pieces, the chief priests said, It is not permitted to put them into the treasury, since it is a price of blood. And having held consultation, they bought the potter's field with them for burial for foreigners. Therefore that field was called the field of blood, to this day. Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, which says, And they took the thirty silver pieces, the price of him who was valued, whom they valued from the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter's field, as Lord appointed me.

Money » Gold used as

Genesis 24:35

And LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great. And he has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.

Ezekiel 28:4

By thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou have gotten thee riches, and have gotten gold and silver into thy treasures.

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of LORD. They shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill t

Isaiah 46:6

Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down, yea, they worship.

Money » Weighed

Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.

Job 28:15

It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.

Zechariah 11:12

And I said to them, If ye think good, give me my wage, and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my wage thirty [pieces] of silver.

Genesis 43:21

And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. And we have brought it again in our hand.

Jeremiah 32:9-10

And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. And I signed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

Money » Power and usefulness of

Money » Value of different pieces of jewish » Troy weights

Matthew 21:12

And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

John 2:15

And having made a whip from cords, he drove all out from the temple, both the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and turned over their tables.

Mark 11:15

And they come to Jerusalem. And having entered into the temple, Jesus began to drive out those who sold and bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

Money » Was given » As wages

Ezra 3:7

Also they gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters, and food, and drink, and oil, to those of Sidon, and to those of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus

Matthew 20:2

And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Money » Was given » As alms

1 Samuel 2:36

And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a morse

Acts 3:6

But Peter said, No silver and gold exists to me, but what I have, this I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.

Acts 3:3

who, having seen Peter and John intending to go into the temple, asked charity.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Talent of silver

1 Kings 16:24

And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver. And he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria.

2 Kings 5:22-23

And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of r And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they bore them before him.

Money » Was given » For merchandise

Deuteronomy 2:6

Ye shall purchase food from them for money, that ye may eat, and ye shall also buy water from them for money, that ye may drink.

Genesis 43:12

And take double money in your hand, and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Money » Was given » As offerings

2 Kings 12:7-9

Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, Why do ye not repair the broken parts of the house? Now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the br And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the broken parts of the house. But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as a man comes into the house of LORD. And the priests who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was

Nehemiah 10:32

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God,

Money » Usually taken by weight

Jeremiah 32:10

And I signed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.

Money » Was given » For tribute

2 Kings 23:33

And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem. And he put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

Matthew 22:19

Exhibit to me the tribute money. And they brought to him a denarius.

Money » Of the jews regulated by the standard of sanctuary

Leviticus 5:15

If a soul commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly in the holy things of LORD, then he shall bring his trespass-offering to LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation in silver by shekels, after the s

Numbers 3:47

thou shall take five shekels apiece by the poll. According to the shekel of the sanctuary thou shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs),

Money » Originally stamped with the image of a lamb

Genesis 33:19

And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred lambs.

Genesis 23:15

My lord, hearken to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and thee? Therefore bury thy dead.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Shekel of silver

Judges 17:10

And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [pieces] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy food. So the Levite went in.

2 Kings 15:20

And Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Talent of gold

1 Kings 9:14

And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

2 Kings 23:23

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah this Passover was kept to LORD in Jerusalem.

Money » Was given » For slaves

Genesis 37:28

And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen, and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Exodus 21:21

Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

Money » Gold and silver used as

Numbers 22:18

And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of LORD my God, to do less or more.

Money » Changing of, a trade

Matthew 21:12

And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple. And he overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

John 2:15

And having made a whip from cords, he drove all out from the temple, both the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and turned over their tables.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Farthing

Luke 12:6

Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

Matthew 5:26

Truly I say to thee, thou will, no, not come out from there, until thou have paid the last quadran.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Penny

Mark 6:37

But having answered, he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, After departing, shall we buy loaves of two hundred denarii, and give them to eat?

Matthew 20:2

And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Money » Was given » For lands

Genesis 23:9

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the full price in the midst of you for a possession of a burying place.

Acts 4:37

having sold a field that was possessed by him, brought the money and placed it at the apostles' feet.

Money » Atonement

Exodus 30:12-16

When thou take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they shall give every man a ransom for his soul to LORD when thou number them, that there be no plague among them when thou number them This they shall give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, (the shekel is twenty gerahs,) half a shekel for an offering to LORD. Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of LORD. read more.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of LORD, to make atonement for your souls. And thou shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

Leviticus 5:15-16

If a soul commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly in the holy things of LORD, then he shall bring his trespass-offering to LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation in silver by shekels, after the s And he shall make restitution for that which he has done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part to it, and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Mite

Luke 21:2

And he also saw a certain poor widow there casting in two mites.

Money » Conscience

Judges 17:2

And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be m

Matthew 27:3

Then Judas, who betrayed him, after seeing that he was condemned, having repented, he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders,

Money » Farthing

Matthew 5:26

Truly I say to thee, thou will, no, not come out from there, until thou have paid the last quadran.

Money » Of the romans, stamped with the image of cæsar

Matthew 22:20-21

And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Therefore, render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.

Money » Jews forbidden to take usury for

Leviticus 25:37

Thou shall not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy food for profit.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Third of a shekel

Nehemiah 10:32

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God,

Money » Love of, the root of all evil

Money » Copper used as

Mark 12:41

And having sat down opposite the treasury, Jesus watched how the multitude cast money into the treasury, and many rich men cast in much.

Mark 6:8

And he commanded them that they should take up nothing for the way, except only a staff--no scrip, no bread, no copper in the belt--

Money » Was current with the merchants

Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Gerah the twentieth of a shekel

Numbers 3:47

thou shall take five shekels apiece by the poll. According to the shekel of the sanctuary thou shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs),

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Half shekel or bekah

Exodus 30:15

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Fourth of a shekel

1 Samuel 9:8

And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.

Money » Brass introduced as, by the romans

Matthew 10:9

Acquire no gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts,

Money » Image on

Matthew 22:20-21

And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Therefore, render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Pound

Money » Sin

2 Kings 12:16

The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of LORD; it was the priests'.

Money » Custom of presenting a piece of

Job 42:11

Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that LORD ha

Money » Love of, the root of evil

Money » Value of, varied corruptly

Amos 8:5

saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit,

Presents » Things given as » Money

Job 42:11

Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that LORD ha

Genesis 45:22

He gave to all of them, each man, changes of raiment, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

1 Samuel 9:8

And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.

Treasure » A thing of highly-estimated value » Money

Genesis 43:23

And he said, Peace be to you, fear not. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to them.

Genesis 43:18

And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, a

Genesis 42:25

Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way. And thus it was done to them.

Genesis 42:27-28

And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey provender in the lodging place, he saw his money, and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. And he said to his brothers, My money is restored, and, lo, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God has done to us?

Genesis 42:35

And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

More verses: Genesis 43:21-22

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A Fool And His Money Shall Part

Job 20:15

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

Alternatives To Money

Exodus 21:21

Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

Counting Money

2 Kings 12:10

And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of LORD.

Double Money

Genesis 43:15

And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

Indeterminate Sums Of Money

Genesis 42:25

Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way. And thus it was done to them.

Lacking Money

Acts 3:6

But Peter said, No silver and gold exists to me, but what I have, this I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.

Money Box

2 Kings 12:9

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as a man comes into the house of LORD. And the priests who kept the threshold put in it all the money that was

Money For The Temple

2 Kings 12:16

The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of LORD; it was the priests'.

Money's Deficiencies

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in

Money, Uses Of

Genesis 17:12

And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations: he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed.

Specific Sums Of Money

Genesis 20:16

And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all who are with thee. And in regard to all thou are righted.

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