finance
What does the Bible say about finance? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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7The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.
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.”
33Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.
8You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits,
17Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.
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.
19And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
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.”
8If a man will afflict God, then you greatly afflict me. And you have said, “In what way, do we afflict you?” In tithes and in first-fruits. 9And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people. 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. 11And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he will not corrupt the fruit of your land. Neither will the vine in the field be barren, says the Lord of hosts. 12And all nations will call you blessed. For you will be a desirable land, says the Lord of hosts.
1And looking around, he saw the wealthy putting their donations into the offertory. 2Then he also saw a certain widow, a pauper, putting in two small brass coins. 3And he said: “Truly, I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4For all these, out of their abundance, have added to the gifts for God. But she, out of what she needed, has put in all that she had to live on.”