'Money' in the Bible

Jesus told him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

I am allowed to do what I want with my own money, am I not? Or are you envious because I'm generous?'

"Similarly, it is like a man going on a trip, who called his servants and turned his money over to them.

But the one who received one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and buried his master's money.

Then you should've invested my money with the bankers. When I returned, I would've received my money back with interest.'

Surely this perfume could've been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute."

The high priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put this into the Temple treasury, because it is blood money."

So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.

So they met with the elders and agreed on a plan to give the soldiers a large amount of money.

So the soldiers took the money, did as they were instructed, and this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all, but rather grew worse.

Jesus looked at him and loved him. Then he told him, "You're missing one thing. Go and sell everything you own, give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

As Jesus sat facing the offering box, he watched how the crowd was dropping their money into it. Many rich people were dropping in large amounts.

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

After they had listened to him, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.

He told them, "Stop collecting more money than the amount you are told to collect."

Even some soldiers were asking him, "And what should we do?" He told them, "Never extort money from anyone by threats or blackmail, and be satisfied with your pay."

He told them, "Don't take anything along on your trip no walking stick, traveling bag, bread, money, or even an extra shirt.

"Sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don't wear out a dependable treasure in heaven, where no thief can get close and no moth can destroy anything.

"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?

But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

Now the Pharisees, who love money, had been listening to all this and began to ridicule Jesus.

When Jesus heard this, he told him, "You still need to do one thing. Sell everything you have and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten coins. He told them, "Invest this money until I come back.'

"After he was appointed king, the prince came back. He ordered the servants to whom he had given the money to be called so he could find out what they had earned by investing.

Then why didn't you put my money in the bank? When I returned, I could have collected it with interest.'

They were delighted, and agreed to give him money.

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

(Now this man bought a field with the money he got for his crime. Falling on his face, he burst open in the middle, and all his intestines gushed out.

since none of them needed anything, because everyone who had land or houses would sell them and bring the money received for the things sold

sold a field that belonged to him, brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

With his wife's full knowledge, he kept back some of the money for himself and brought the remainder and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of fortune-telling and who had brought her owners a great deal of money by predicting the future.

When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities who met together in the public square.

Then the tribune replied, "I paid a lot of money for this citizenship of mine."

I will be very glad to spend my money and myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much?

As you know, we did not come with flattering words or with a scheme to make money. God is our witness!

He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but instead be gentle. He must not be argumentative or love money.

Ministers, too, must be serious. They must not be two-faced, addicted to wine, or greedy for money.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Because an overseer is God's servant manager, he must be blameless. He must not be arrogant or irritable. He must not drink too much, be a violent person, or make money in shameful ways.

They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you or abandon you."

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money."