Making Money

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

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

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. — read the full passage →

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. — read the full passage →

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; — read the full passage →

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. — read the full passage →

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, — read the full passage →

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. — read the full passage →

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. — read the full passage →

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. — read the full passage →

And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, — read the full passage →

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. — read the full passage →

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. — read the full passage →

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. — read the full passage →

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. — read the full passage →

Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. — read the full passage →

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains. — read the full passage →

I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. — read the full passage →

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: — read the full passage →

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: — read the full passage →

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. — read the full passage →

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. — read the full passage →

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, — read the full passage →

These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. — read the full passage →

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? — read the full passage →

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. — read the full passage →

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. — read the full passage →

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: — read the full passage →

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. — read the full passage →

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: — read the full passage →

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.