betting
What does the Bible say about betting? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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11Substance obtained in haste will be diminished. But what is collected by hand, little by little, shall be multiplied.
5Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”
10For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
9For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
10Where there are many riches, there will also be many to consume these things. And how does it benefit the one who possesses, except that he discerns the wealth with his own eyes?
2in the hope of the eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before the ages of time,
28Whoever was stealing, let him now not steal, but rather let him labor, working with his hands, doing what is good, so that he may have something to distribute to those who suffer need.
10Just as each of you has received grace, minister in the same way to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
35I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
8Yet truly, let this one thing not escape notice, most beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.
20“But,” he said “the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.
33Lots are cast into the lap, but they are tempered by the Lord.
33I have coveted neither silver and gold, nor apparel, 34as you yourselves know. For that which was needed by me and by those who are with me, these hands have provided. 35I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
5For know and understand this: no one who is a fornicator, or lustful, or rapacious (for these are a kind of service to idols) holds an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
12Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.