39 Bible Verses about investing

Divide your share in seven or in eight, for you do not know what disaster will happen on the earth.

When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls--there it will be.

Send out your bread on the water, for in many days you will find it.

Buy truth and do not sell [it], wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "I [am] Yahweh your God, {who teaches} you to profit, leads you in [the] way you should go.

He who is good will leave an inheritance to {his grandchildren}, and stored up for the righteous [is] the wealth of a sinner.

For it is necessary [for] this perishable [body] to put on incorruptibility, and this mortal [body] to put on immortality.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.

so that [the] next generation might know-- children [yet to] be born-- [that] they might rise up and tell their children,

Set your mind on the things above, not [on] the things on earth.

The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, and he who captures souls [is] wise.

Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and [when I] returned I would have gotten back [what was] mine with interest!

And seek the prosperity of the city where I have deported you, and pray on behalf of it to Yahweh, for in its prosperity you will have prosperity.'

But the one who had received the one went away [and] dug up the ground and hid his master's money.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

She considers a field and buys it, from the fruit of {her hand} she plants a vineyard.

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.

And summoning ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business {until I come back}.'

and [the things] which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these [things] to faithful people who will be competent to teach others also.

You will give to him from your authority so that the entire community of Israel will {obey him}.

He who lends to Yahweh [is] he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him.

And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his own ability, and he went on a journey immediately.

For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.

And the one who had received the five talents came up [and] brought five more talents, saying, 'Master, you handed over to me five talents. See, I have gained five more talents!'

for they [are] a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck.

Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

Now faith is the realization of what is hoped for, the proof of things not seen.

And it happened that when he returned [after] receiving the kingdom, he ordered these slaves to whom he had given the money to be summoned to him, so that he could know what they had gained by trading.

And Moses chose men of ability from all Israel, and he appointed them [as] heads over the people, [as] commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens.

who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, [while] an ark was being constructed, in which a few--that is, eight souls--were rescued through water.

And Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and he did all that he had said.

For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

The crack of the whip! The rumbling of the [chariot] wheel! The galloping of the horse! The racing of the chariot!

And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

If we have sown spiritual [things] among you, [is it too] great [a thing] if we reap material [things] from you?