34 Bible Verses about Money

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Acts 8:20

Then said Peter unto him, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou wenest that the gift of God may be obtained with money.

Matthew 17:26

Peter said unto him, "Of strangers." Then said Jesus unto him again, "Then are the children free.

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Matthew 10:9

Possess not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles,

Mark 12:41

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people put money into the treasury. And many that were rich, cast in much.

Interest » loaning » Money

Exodus 22:25

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress him with usury.

Ezekiel 18:13

he lendeth upon usury, and taketh moreover. Shall this man live? He shall not live. Seeing he hath done all these abominations, he shall die: his blood shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 22:12

Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God.

Psalm 15:5

He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.

Judas » Returns » Money » To jewish rulers

Matthew 27:3-10

Then when Judas, which betrayed him, saw that he was condemned, he repented himself; and brought again the thirty plates of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that." And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hung himself. read more.
And the chief priests took the silver plates and said, "It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood." And they took counsel, and bought with them a potter's field to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field is called the field of blood, until this day. Then was fulfilled, that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "And they took thirty silver plates, the price of him that was valued, whom they bought of the children of Israel, and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me."

Money » Gold used as

Genesis 24:35

and the LORD hath blessed my master out of measure that he is become great and hath given him sheep, oxen, silver and gold, menservants, maidservants, camels and asses.

Ezekiel 28:4

With thy wisdom and thy understanding, thou hast gotten thee great wealthiness, and gathered treasure of silver and gold.

Ezekiel 7:19

their silver shall lie in the streets, and their gold shall be despised. Yea, their silver and gold may not deliver them in the day of the fearful wrath of the LORD. They shall not satisfy their hungry souls, neither fill their empty bellies therewith: For it is become their own decay through their wickedness:

Isaiah 46:6

Ye fools, no doubt, will take out silver and gold out of your purses, and weigh it, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, that men may kneel down and worship it.

Money » Weighed

Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.

Job 28:15

She cannot be gotten for the most fine gold, neither may the price of her be bought with any money.

Zechariah 11:12

And I said unto them, "If ye think it good, bring hither my price: if no, then leave." So they weighed down thirty silver pens, the value that I was prized at.

Genesis 43:21

and as we came to an inn and opened our sacks: behold, every man's money was in his sack with full weight. But we have brought it again with us,

Jeremiah 32:9-10

and so I loosed the land from Hananel of Anathoth, mine Uncle's son, and weighed him there the money: even seven sicles, and ten silver pence. I caused him also to make me a writing, and to seal it, and called record thereby, and weighed him there the money upon the weights.

Money » Power and usefulness of

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Meat maketh men to laugh, and wine maketh them merry; but unto money are all things obedient.

Money » Value of different pieces of jewish » Troy weights

John 2:15

And he made a scourge of small cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen, and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables.

Mark 11:15

And they came to Jerusalem, and Jesus went into the temple: and began to cast out the sellers and buyers in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the stools of them that sold doves:

Money » Was given » As wages

Ezra 3:7

Nevertheless, they gave money unto the masons and the carpenters, and meat and drink and oil unto them of Sidon and of Tyre, to bring Cedar timber from Lebanon by sea unto Joppa, according to the commandment of Cyrus the king of Persia.

Matthew 20:2

And he agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, and sent them into his vineyard.

Money » Was given » As alms

1 Samuel 2:36

And they that are left in thine house, shall come and crouch to him for a little piece of silver and a cake of bread, and shall say: put me, I pray thee, in one office or other among the priests, that I may eat a morsel of bread.'"

Acts 3:6

Then said Peter, "Silver and gold have I none: such as I have, give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."

Acts 3:3

Which same, when he saw Peter and John, that they would into the temple, desired to receive an alms;

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Talent of silver

1 Kings 16:24

And he bought the hill of Samaria of one Shemer for two hundred talents of silver, and built in the hill, and called the name of the city which he had built Samaria after the name of Shemer, the lord of the hill.

2 Kings 5:22-23

And he said, "Yea. But my master hath sent me, saying, 'See, there be two young men come to me out of Ephraim of the children of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, one talent of silver and a couple of good garments." And Naaman said, "Adventure and take two talents of silver in two bags, with two goodly garments." - and delivered them unto two of his servants, to bear it before him.

Money » Was given » For merchandise

Deuteronomy 2:6

Ye shall buy meat of them, for money, to eat; and ye shall buy water of them, for money, to drink.

Genesis 43:12

And take as much money more with you. And the money that was brought again in your sacks, take it again with you in your hands, peradventure it was some oversight.

Money » Was given » As offerings

2 Kings 12:7-9

Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest and for the other priests also, and said to them, "Why repair ye not the broken places of the temple? Now therefore see ye receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it to repair the temple withal." And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people: But that it should go to the mending of the temple. Then Jehoiada the priest took a coffer and bored a hole in the lid of it, and put it beside the altar on the right side as a man cometh in to the house of the LORD. And into that did the priests that kept the doors, put all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

Nehemiah 10:32

And we decreed a statute upon ourselves, to give yearly the third part of a sicle to the ministration in the house of our God,

Money » Usually taken by weight

Jeremiah 32:10

I caused him also to make me a writing, and to seal it, and called record thereby, and weighed him there the money upon the weights.

Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.

Money » Was given » For tribute

2 Kings 23:33

And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath in the time of his reign in Jerusalem, and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Matthew 22:19

Let me see the tribute money." And they took him a penny.

Money » Of the jews regulated by the standard of sanctuary

Leviticus 5:15

"When a soul trespasseth and sinneth through ignorance in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock valued at two sicles after the holy sicle, for a trespass offering.

Numbers 3:47

take five sicles of every piece, after the sicles of the holy place; twenty geras; the sicles.

Money » Originally stamped with the image of a lamb

Genesis 33:19

and bought a parcel of ground - where he pitched his tent - of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred lambs.

Genesis 23:15

"My lord, hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is that betwixt thee and me? Bury thy dead."

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Shekel of silver

Judges 17:10

And Micah said unto him, "Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest. And I will give thee ten silverlings by year and raiment of all sorts, and thy meat and drink."

2 Kings 15:20

And Menahem raised the money in Israel, upon all men of substance, for to give the king of Assyria fifty sicles of silver apiece. And the king of Assyria turned back again and tarried not there in the land.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Talent of gold

1 Kings 9:14

This Hiram had sent the king six score hundredweight of gold.

2 Kings 23:23

And in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Money » Was given » For slaves

Genesis 37:28

Then as the Midianites merchant men passed by, they drew Joseph out of the pit and sold him unto the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought him into Egypt.

Exodus 21:21

But and if they continue a day or two, it shall not be avenged for they are his money.

Money » Gold and silver used as

Numbers 22:18

And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can go no further than the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

Money » Changing of, a trade

John 2:15

And he made a scourge of small cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen, and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Farthing

Matthew 5:26

I say unto ye verily, Thou shalt not come out thence, till thou have paid the utmost farthing.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Penny

Mark 6:37

He answered and said unto them, "Give ye them to eat." And they said unto him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?"

Matthew 20:2

And he agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, and sent them into his vineyard.

Money » Was given » For lands

Genesis 23:9

and let him give me the double cave which he hath in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth; let him give it me in the presence of you, for a possession to bury in."

Acts 4:37

had land, and sold it, and laid the price down at the apostles' feet.

Money » Atonement

Exodus 30:12-16

"When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel and tellest them, they shall give every man a reconciling of his soul unto the LORD, that there be no plague among them when thou tellest them. And thus much shall every man give that goeth in the number: half a sicle, after the holy sicle: a sicle is twenty geras: and a half sicle shall be the heave offering unto the LORD. And all that are numbered of them that are twenty years old and above shall give a heave offering unto the LORD. read more.
The rich shall not pass, and the poor shall not go under, half a sicle; when they give a heave offering unto the LORD for the atonement of their souls. And thou shalt take the reconciling money of the children of Israel and shalt put it unto the use of the tabernacle of witness, and it shall be a memorial of the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for their souls."

Leviticus 5:15-16

"When a soul trespasseth and sinneth through ignorance in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock valued at two sicles after the holy sicle, for a trespass offering. And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and put the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Mite

Luke 21:2

And he saw also a certain poor widow, which cast in thither two mites.

Money » Conscience

Judges 17:2

which said unto his mother, "The eleven hundred silverlings that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst and saidst in mine ears: Behold, the silver is with me for I took it away." Then said his mother, "Blessed be thou my son, in the LORD."

Matthew 27:3

Then when Judas, which betrayed him, saw that he was condemned, he repented himself; and brought again the thirty plates of silver to the chief priests and elders,

Money » Farthing

Matthew 5:26

I say unto ye verily, Thou shalt not come out thence, till thou have paid the utmost farthing.

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

Matthew 22:20-21

And he said unto them, "Whose is this image and superscription?" They said unto him, "Caesar's." Then said he unto them, "Give therefore to Caesar, that which is Caesar's: and give unto God, that which is God's."

Money » Jews forbidden to take usury for

Leviticus 25:37

Thou shalt not lend him thy money upon usury, nor lend him of thy food to have advantage by it;

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Third of a shekel

Nehemiah 10:32

And we decreed a statute upon ourselves, to give yearly the third part of a sicle to the ministration in the house of our God,

Money » Love of, the root of all evil

Money » Copper used as

Mark 12:41

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people put money into the treasury. And many that were rich, cast in much.

Mark 6:8

And commanded them, that they should take nothing unto their Journey, save a rod only: Neither scrip, neither bread, neither money in their purses:

Money » Was current with the merchants

Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.

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

Numbers 3:47

take five sicles of every piece, after the sicles of the holy place; twenty geras; the sicles.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Half shekel or bekah

Exodus 30:15

The rich shall not pass, and the poor shall not go under, half a sicle; when they give a heave offering unto the LORD for the atonement of their souls.

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Fourth of a shekel

1 Samuel 9:8

And the young man answered Saul again, and said, "I have found about me the fourth part of a sicle: that will we give the man of God to tell us our way."

Money » Brass introduced as, by the romans

Matthew 10:9

Possess not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles,

Money » Image on

Matthew 22:20-21

And he said unto them, "Whose is this image and superscription?" They said unto him, "Caesar's." Then said he unto them, "Give therefore to Caesar, that which is Caesar's: and give unto God, that which is God's."

Money » Pieces of mentioned » Pound

Money » Sin

2 Kings 12:16

Howbeit, trespass money and sin money might not be brought into the house of the LORD, for it was the priests'.

Money » Custom of presenting a piece of

Job 42:11

And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance afore, and ate bread with him in his house: wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold.

Money » Love of, the root of evil

Money » Value of, varied corruptly

Presents » Things given as » Money

Job 42:11

And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance afore, and ate bread with him in his house: wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold.

Genesis 45:22

And he gave unto each of them change of raiment: but unto Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment.

1 Samuel 9:8

And the young man answered Saul again, and said, "I have found about me the fourth part of a sicle: that will we give the man of God to tell us our way."

Treasure » A thing of highly-estimated value » Money

Genesis 43:23

And he said, "Be of good cheer, fear not: Your God and the God of your fathers hath put you that treasure in your sacks, for I had your money." And he brought Simeon out to them,

Genesis 43:18

When they were brought to Joseph's house, they were afraid, and said, "Because of the money that came in our sacks' mouths at the first time, are we brought, to pick a quarrel with us and to lay something to our charge: to bring us in bondage and our asses also."

Genesis 42:25

and commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to put every man's money in his sack, and to give them victuals to spend by the way. And so it was done to them.

Genesis 42:27-28

And as one of them opened his sack, for to give his ass provender in the Inn, he spied his money in his sack's mouth. And he said unto his brethren, "My money is restored me again, and is even in my sack's mouth." Then their hearts failed them, and were astonished and said one to another, "How cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?"

Genesis 42:35

And as they emptied their sacks, behold: every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when both they and their father saw the 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

The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly.

Alternatives To Money

Exodus 21:21

But and if they continue a day or two, it shall not be avenged for they are his money.

Counting Money

2 Kings 12:10

And when they saw that there was much money in the coffer, the king's scribe and the high priest came, and knit up the money that was found in the house of the LORD, after they had told it.

Double Money

Genesis 43:15

Thus took they the present and twice so much more money with them, and Benjamin. And rose up, went down to Egypt, and presented themself to Joseph.

Indeterminate Sums Of Money

Genesis 42:25

and commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to put every man's money in his sack, and to give them victuals to spend by the way. And so it was done to them.

Money Box

2 Kings 12:9

Then Jehoiada the priest took a coffer and bored a hole in the lid of it, and put it beside the altar on the right side as a man cometh in to the house of the LORD. And into that did the priests that kept the doors, put all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

Money For The Temple

2 Kings 12:16

Howbeit, trespass money and sin money might not be brought into the house of the LORD, for it was the priests'.

Money's Deficiencies

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Money, Uses Of

Genesis 17:12

And every manchild when it is eight days old, shall be circumcised among you in your generations, and all servants also born at home or bought with money, though they be strangers and not of thy seed.

Specific Sums Of Money

Genesis 20:16

And unto Sara he said, "See, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, behold this thing shall be a covering to thine eyes unto all that are with thee and unto all men and an excuse."

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