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Bible Verses about Money
With the necessity of using cash for just about everything in life, Bible verses about money and scripture about debt provide us with God’s insight into how we are to deal with money.
Whether you are looking for Scripture passages about money for a sermon or just for personal study, we have selected the best 20 Bible quotes we could find to give us a better understanding on the subject of money and debt.
Though most of these verses are about money in general, the last seven Bible passages are about debt and borrowing.
Bible Verses About Money
1.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
[English Standard Version, Matthew 6:24]
2.
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.”
[Proverbs 13:22]
3.
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”
[1 Timothy 6:10]
4.
“Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
[Hebrews 13:5]
5.
“Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.”
[Proverbs 13:11]
6.
“By your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;”
[Ezekiel 28:4 ESV]
7.
“He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.”
[Ecclesiastes 5:10]
8.
“Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.”
[Proverbs 30:8-9]
9.
“Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.”
[Proverbs 23:4-5]
10.
“They said, Caesar’s. Then he said to them, Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
[Matthew 22:21]
11.
“Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.”
[Matthew 25:27]
12.
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.”
[Exodus 22:25]
Scripture About Debt and Borrowing
13.
“You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.”
[Leviticus 25:37]
14.
“Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.”
[Matthew 5:42]
15.
“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.”
[Proverbs 22:7]
16.
“Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?”
[Proverbs 22:26-27]
17.
“And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.”
[1 Samuel 22:2]
18.
“Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.”
[Proverbs 22:26]
19.
“Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
[Romans 13:7-8]
20.
“The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;”
[Psalm 37:21]
The desire to acquire huge sums of money has been practiced from the earliest times and our world is full of volumes written about how to get it, but these Bible verses about money advise us on all aspects of money and what our attitude should be.
We are not to love money or toil unceasingly for it, and we are to be content with what we have, realizing that the love of money is the root cause of a lot of the evil in the world.
The Scripture passages tell us that money can keep us from loving God or cause us to depart from the faith. They also warn that those who love money will never be satisfied no matter how much they get, and that when someone gets money too hastily rather than working for it in a steady productive manner, they will usually lose it just as quickly.
These Bible quotes about money suggest that the best situation is a balance between being poor and being rich, rather than one or the other.
Also, the Scripture on debt advises us to avoid borrowing if we can. But, we also must faithfully pay any debts that we owe.
