Bible verses about money
Scripture examines money more often than it condemns it, and the famous sentence about the root of all evil does not say what it is usually quoted as saying. These passages are set out with a sentence on each, including the ones that are harder on the poor man than on the rich.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. — Matthew 6:24 · WEB
Three sayings about money that are really about the heart, the eye, and who owns you.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. — 1 Timothy 6:10 · WEB
The letter's most quoted sentence is also its most misquoted, and the wording is careful in three places.
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.” — Luke 12:15 · WEB
A man wants help with an inheritance and gets a parable about a farmer whose only conversation is with himself.
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. — Ecclesiastes 5:10 · WEB
Wealth is examined as a mechanism rather than condemned as a sin, and four of its failures are stated as plain economics.
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — 1 Timothy 6:17 · WEB
The wealthy are not told to stop being wealthy, and the two dangers named are an attitude and a misplaced confidence.
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. — 2 Corinthians 9:7 · WEB
Giving is described as sowing rather than spending, and the sufficiency promised is aimed at more giving rather than at comfort.
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase; — Proverbs 3:9 · WEB
The best-known verses in the book are a warning against a particular kind of competence, and they end with discipline redefined as evidence of love.
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. — Philippians 4:19 · WEB
The promise answers the gift exactly — they supplied his need, and God will supply theirs.
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to one and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.” — Luke 16:13 · WEB
A dishonest employee buys himself a future with his employer's money, and is held up as an example of foresight.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — Romans 13:8 · WEB
One debt stays permanently open, the commandments are summed rather than replaced, and the fulfillment is defined by harmlessness.
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow. — Proverbs 13:11 · WEB
A chapter largely about money and discipline contains the most sympathetic sentence in the book about waiting.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread. — Psalm 37:25 · WEB
The argument is finished with a piece of testimony: an old man reports what he has and has not seen.
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. — Matthew 6:21 · WEB
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool. — Jeremiah 17:11 · WEB
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender. — Proverbs 22:7 · WEB
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.” — Hebrews 13:5 · WEB