48 Bible Verses about Finances

For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellence of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Let your manner of life be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some have coveted, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thy increase:

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase.

And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no collections when I come.

Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence: for the money faileth.

For which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he hath sufficient to finish it?

He hoped also that money would have been given him by Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

But there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made to every man according as he had need.

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is waste, and ye run every man to his own house.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Go to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered from the people:

For the LORD thy God shall bless thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to thy fathers, as it is this day.

Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.

But Peter said, Ananias, Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.

And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said to them, Occupy till I come.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things.

Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

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

But ye say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever thou mightest be profited by me;

Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.