church finances
What does the Bible say about church finances? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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28For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?
38Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again.”
1“Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven. 2Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 3But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your almsgiving may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
11So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?
7each one giving, just as he has determined in his heart, neither out of sadness, nor out of obligation. For God loves a cheerful giver.
33Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.
24No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
7The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.
10Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, says the Lord, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance.
6But piety with sufficiency is great gain.
8And I will move all nations. And the Desired of all nations will arrive. And I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts.
22The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.
20There is desirable treasure, as well as oil, in the habitations of the just. And the imprudent man will waste it.