18 Bible Verses about investing
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For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality.
"And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.
Set your heart on things above, not on earthly things;
Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest.
"But he who had received the one talent went off, and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money.
"Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
"And he summoned ten slaves of his, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, "'Trade with these until I come.'
The teachings which you have heard from me, attested by many witnesses, deliver into the keeping of faithful men, who in their turn will be able to teach others also.
"To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one??o each according to his individual ability??nd then set out on his travels.
"The time will come for you when your enemies will throw ramparts around you, and encompass you, and shut you in on every side, and raze you to the ground,
"The man who had received the five talents came, bringing five more, and said: "'Master, five talents you entrusted to me; see, I have gained five more.'
Let your speech be always gracious, with a savor of salt, and learn how to give every man a fitting answer.
Now faith is the title-deed of things hoped for; the putting to the proof of things not seen.
"And upon his return after he had secured the royal power, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he might know what they had gained by trading.
who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)
If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?
