100 Bible Verses About Wealth
Bible verses about Wealth
Exploring wealth through scripture offers profound insights beyond mere financial gain. The Bible reveals that true wealth encompasses spiritual riches, wisdom, and generosity. Understanding biblical principles about wealth cultivates a healthy perspective on possessions, stewardship, and our relationship with God. These verses guide us to prioritize eternal values over fleeting material comforts, encouraging us to use our resources to bless others and further God's kingdom. By studying these teachings, we can align our hearts with God's will, pursuing a life rich in faith, love, and lasting significance, recognizing that our ultimate treasure lies in Him.
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1 Kings 9:28 (KJV)
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
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Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En–rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:
And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
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:
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
Even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
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.
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth–jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
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:
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
The Bible's verses on wealth reveal a complex perspective, cautioning against its deceptive allure while acknowledging its potential for good. These scriptures emphasize that true wealth lies not in material possessions, but in spiritual riches, integrity, and a generous heart. We are called to manage earthly resources responsibly, using them to serve others and glorify God. Reflecting on these verses challenges us to examine our own attitudes towards wealth, prioritizing eternal values over fleeting treasures. May we seek wisdom in navigating the complexities of wealth, embracing a lifestyle of contentment, generosity, and unwavering faith, remembering that our ultimate security rests not in what we own, but in who owns us.