18 Bible Verses about investing
Most Relevant Verses
For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe itself with immortality.
"But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.
Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest.
But the man who had received the one went and dug a hole and buried his master's money.
"Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth, where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
And he called ten of his servants and gave each of them a pound, instructing them to trade with the money during his absence.
All that you have been taught by me in the hearing of many witnesses, you must hand on to trusty men who shall themselves, in turn, be competent to instruct others also.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one--to each according to his individual capacity; and then started from home.
For the time is coming upon thee when thy foes will throw up around thee earthworks and a wall, investing thee and hemming thee in on every side.
The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, and said, "'Sir, it was five talents that you entrusted to me: see, I have gained five more.'
Let your language be always seasoned with the salt of grace, so that you may know how to give every man a fitting answer.
Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see.
And upon his return, after he had obtained the sovereignty, he ordered those servants to whom he had given the money to be summoned before him, that he might learn their success in trading.
who in ancient times had been disobedient, while God's longsuffering was patiently waiting in the days of Noah during the building of the Ark, in which a few persons--eight in number--were brought safely through the water.
even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his account as righteousness?
If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?