70 Bible Verses About Biblical Economics

And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

And Joseph gathered up 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.

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord’s release.

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.

The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

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

And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s:

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:

And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: