100 Bible Verses About Financial Planning

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

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

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

And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.

And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:

And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

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

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

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

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan–aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the Lord hath spoken.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

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.

And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

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.

And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

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 set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.