45 Bible Verses about Saving Money
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On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
and spend the money for whatever you desire--oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.
When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
A stingy manhastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed--the money from the assessment of persons--and the money that a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"--
You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat.
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff--no bread, no bag, no money in their belts--
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,
She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest."
