100 Bible Verses About Money

Bible verses about Money

Exploring what the Bible says about money isn't about chasing wealth, but about gaining wisdom for navigating life's material aspects with a spiritual compass. Scripture offers profound insights into stewardship, generosity, and the dangers of greed. Understanding these principles allows us to align our financial lives with God's will, fostering a heart of contentment and purpose. Let these verses illuminate the path towards financial responsibility, reminding us that true riches lie not in earthly possessions, but in a life devoted to serving God and others. Through this study, may we discover the freedom that comes from a balanced perspective on money and its role in our spiritual journey.

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Proverbs 18:2 (YLT)

A fool delighteth not in understanding, But--in uncovering his heart.

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And I said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work [is] great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.

Nehemiah 4:19WEB

And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

2 Kings 8:12WEB

And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

Proverbs 3:4YLT

I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9:26WEB

Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:7KJV

and stronger are the people that are after Omri than the people that are after Tibni son of Ginath, and Tibni dieth, and Omri reigneth.

1 Kings 16:22YLT

And it hath come to pass, in that day, The Lord addeth a second time his power, To get the remnant of His people that is left, From Asshur, and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from Cush, And from Elam, and from Shinar, And from Hamath, and from isles of the sea,

Isaiah 11:11YLT

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

Job 35:14KJV

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Job 30:27KJV

and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,

Acts 18:27YLT

And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

Ruth 4:6KJV

He divideth the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

Job 26:12WEB

The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.

Psalms 7:1YLT

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it [shall be] for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err [therein].

Isaiah 35:8WEB

Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

Numbers 15:29WEB

Thou hast said: Only a word of the lips! counsel and might are for battle; now, on whom hast thou trusted that thou hast rebelled against me?

2 Kings 18:20YLT

Mine is counsel and substance, I am understanding, I have might.

Proverbs 8:14YLT

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

Psalms 37:4YLT

and the law is not by faith, but--The man who did them shall live in them.'

Galatians 3:12YLT

Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side.

2 Chronicles 32:22WEB

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Still they say this word in the land of Judah, And in its cities, In My turning back to their captivity, Jehovah doth bless thee, habitation of righteousness, Mountain of holiness.

Jeremiah 31:23YLT

Be pained, and bring forth, O daughter of Zion, As a travailing woman, For now, thou goest forth from the city, And thou hast dwelt in the field, And thou hast gone unto Babylon, There thou art delivered, There redeem thee doth Jehovah from the hand of thine enemies.

Micah 4:10YLT

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Romans 7:5KJV

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

Matthew 15:16YLT

Concerning which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] to you:

1 Peter 1:10WEB

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

Ephesians 1:17KJV

The Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.

Psalms 18:3YLT

How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

2 Kings 18:24WEB

In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness--to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness--t sanctification,

Romans 6:19YLT

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

Job 7:14KJV

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 10:14KJV

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Hebrews 4:9KJV

Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

2 Chronicles 32:15KJV

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 32:8KJV

And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

Luke 14:3WEB

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

Proverbs 24:30KJV

Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking my own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 10:33WEB

And this is a law of the guilt-offering: it is most holy;

Leviticus 7:1YLT

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified--ye did slay;

Acts 2:23YLT

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

Proverbs 31:6YLT

God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult, I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,

Psalms 108:7YLT

To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.

Romans 3:26WEB

And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as one mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

Genesis 19:14YLT

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

Ezekiel 18:5KJV

My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

Job 33:3KJV

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

Jeremiah 17:7KJV

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall be their blood in his sight.

Psalms 72:14WEB

as Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses--an altar of whole stones, over which he hath not waved iron--and they cause to go up upon it burnt-offerings to Jehovah, and sacrifice peace-offerings;

Joshua 8:31YLT

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

Romans 7:14YLT

But certain men adhered to him, and believed: among whom [was] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Acts 17:34WEB

And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they are to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field.

Hosea 2:12YLT

That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

Proverbs 22:19KJV

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years.

Zechariah 1:12WEB

A fool delighteth not in understanding, But--in uncovering his heart.

Proverbs 18:2YLT

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

Proverbs 1:29YLT

With a strong hand, and with an out-stretched arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

Psalms 136:12WEB

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

Job 34:35KJV

And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:22KJV

And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

2 Kings 14:27WEB

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Psalms 119:115KJV

And he saith unto Him, If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, then Thou hast done for me a sign that Thou art speaking with me.

Judges 6:17YLT

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

Nehemiah 5:10KJV

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shade of Egypt [your] confusion.

Isaiah 30:3WEB

Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.

Psalms 50:20WEB

Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

Deuteronomy 1:39KJV

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

Hosea 12:3KJV

And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

Leviticus 27:25KJV

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 2:13WEB

six days thou dost eat unleavened things, and on the seventh day is a restraint to Jehovah thy God; thou dost do no work.

Deuteronomy 16:8YLT

I hate and abhor lying: [but] thy law do I love.

Psalms 119:163WEB

And he saith to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, And out of the strong came forth sweetness;' and they were not able to declare the riddle in three days.

Judges 14:14YLT

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

Proverbs 22:20WEB

For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.

Isaiah 48:9YLT

Who [is] like to thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders!

Exodus 15:11WEB

And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

Proverbs 7:7YLT

Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

Proverbs 2:11YLT

Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isaiah 51:11WEB

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10KJV

And when Moses's father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What [is] this thing that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning to evening?

Exodus 18:14WEB

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Romans 2:25WEB

Then said the LORD to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

Exodus 16:4WEB

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:1KJV

And the rest of the matters of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 15:31YLT

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 6:1KJV

And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5:17KJV

In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And--he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.

Ezekiel 33:13YLT

To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins,

Luke 1:77YLT

and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

Romans 11:26YLT

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

1 Peter 3:7WEB

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Romans 5:15KJV

In famine he will redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

Job 5:20WEB

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

Romans 4:16YLT

Lord Jehovah, Thou--Thou hast begun to shew Thy servant Thy greatness, and Thy strong hand; for who is a God in the heavens or in earth who doth according to Thy works, and according to Thy might?

Deuteronomy 3:24YLT

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

Job 14:6KJV

Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest from God.

John 16:30WEB

For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 20:11WEB

And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 14:18KJV

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

Nehemiah 9:16KJV

Be mindful, O my God, of Tobiah, and of Sanballat, according to these his works, and also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets who have been making me afraid.

Nehemiah 6:14YLT

And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15:11WEB

Ultimately, the Bible’s verses on money offer a profound and multifaceted perspective, transcending simple financial advice. They underscore the importance of ethical accumulation, wise stewardship, and generous giving. Money, itself, is neither inherently good nor evil, but rather a tool whose value is determined by the heart and intentions of its user. The scriptures challenge us to examine our relationship with wealth, urging us to prioritize spiritual riches over material possessions and to avoid the pitfalls of greed and materialism. Reflecting on these verses should prompt a continuous reassessment of our spending habits, investment choices, and charitable contributions, guiding us to use our resources in ways that honor God, bless others, and align with eternal values. By living out these principles, we can find true contentment and lasting fulfillment that transcends any monetary value.