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Proverbs 3:9 ESV / 115 helpful votes
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
Luke 14:28-30 ESV / 114 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 110 helpful votes
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 27:23 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 75 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 69 helpful votes
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 59 helpful votes
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 56 helpful votes
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Haggai 2:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.
Proverbs 27:23-27 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. There will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Proverbs 23:4-5 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 35 helpful votes
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Luke 14:28 ESV / 33 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Psalm 24:1 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
Proverbs 22:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Luke 16:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Psalm 112:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 24 helpful votes
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
James 1:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Proverbs 22:26-27 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Luke 12:16-21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ …
Ecclesiastes 5:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
Proverbs 13:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Psalm 37:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
James 5:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Galatians 6:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Luke 12:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Luke 6:38 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Luke 16:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 27:26 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.
1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. …
Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Colossians 4:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
1 Corinthians 16:1-2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
Romans 12:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Luke 16:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
Matthew 25:1-13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. …
Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 27:23-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
Proverbs 27:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
James 2:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Romans 13:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 11:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
James 4:13-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
Romans 8:5-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Acts 5:4-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.
John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Ecclesiastes 11:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
Psalm 20:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!
James 5:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. …
1 Corinthians 10:31-33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
James 2:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
1 Timothy 6:7-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Psalm 50:10-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Luke 16:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
Luke 12:42-46 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.
Matthew 23:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
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