What The Bible Says About Finance

"Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise."

"Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed."

"Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers."

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you."

"The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty."

"Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer."

"Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land."

"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest."

"So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful."

"Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow."

"Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment."

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much... You cannot serve both God and Money."

"Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you."

"A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed."

"Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."

"Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing."

"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' In tithes and offerings... Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse... Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."

"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it."

"'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the Lord Almighty."

"The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants."