Bible Verses on Wealth and Finances
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. – 1 Timothy 6:10
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. – Matthew 6:19
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. – Matthew 6:24
The borrower is slave to the lender. – Proverbs 22:7
Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. – Luke 6:30
Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow. – Proverbs 13:11
Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice. – Proverbs 16:8
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale. – Proverbs 18:11
Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. – Ecclesiastes 5:10
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. – Proverbs 23:4
Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. – Proverbs 14:31
The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and exalts. – 1 Samuel 2:7
A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished. – Proverbs 28:20
Bible Verses on Wealth and Finances part 2
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops. – Proverbs 3:9
The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor. – Proverbs 22:9
Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked. – Psalm 37:16
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done. – Proverbs 19:17
Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases; for they will take nothing with them when they die, their splendor will not descend with them. – Psalm 49:16-17
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. – Proverbs 22:3
A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous. – Proverbs 13:22
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. – Mark 10:25
Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? – Matthew 6:25
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. – Proverbs 11:1
Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. – Proverbs 23:5
Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered. – Proverbs 21:13
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. – Proverbs 21:5
Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil. – Proverbs 15:16
Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses. – Proverbs 28:27
The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him. – Proverbs 11:1
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender. – Proverbs 22:7
One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. – Proverbs 13:7
In their hearts, humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. – Proverbs 16:9
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value. – Proverbs 10:20
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. – Proverbs 22:1
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man. – Proverbs 6:10-11
Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. – Proverbs 11:4
Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. – Proverbs 16:32
A man with riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish. – Psalm 49:20
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. – Proverbs 23:4-5
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without justice. – Proverbs 16:8
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. – Ecclesiastes 5:10
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. – Proverbs 21:5
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. – Proverbs 14:23
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed. – Proverbs 19:17
He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. – Proverbs 14:21
