45 Bible Verses about Saving Money
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On the first of the week let each of you put by at home, laying up in whatever degree he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.
For wisdom is a defence as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden end, shall he make of all them that dwell in the land.
And when money came to an end in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread! for why should we die before thee? for our money is all gone.
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous man.
and thou shalt give the money for whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thy house.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?
He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is right, but it tendeth only to want.
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the money of every one that passes the account, the money at which every man is valued, and all the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,
Wealth gotten by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase it.
and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,
Thou shalt eat, and not be satisfied, and thine emptiness shall remain in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take away, and not save; and what thou savest will I give up to the sword.
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Now I shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.
Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches:
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an impurity: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their belly; for it hath been the stumbling-block of their iniquity.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches; but the indigent heareth not rebuke.
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.
and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their belt;
deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.
For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
And they took the money and did as they had been taught. And this report is current among the Jews until this day.
For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Holy Spirit was given, offered them money,
She considereth a field, and acquireth it; of the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
And she came and told the man of God; and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons on the rest.
(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,)
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