Making Money

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

“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.

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.”

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

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

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.”

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. — 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 one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” — read the full passage →

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. — read the full passage →

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

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

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. — read the full passage →

Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying, — read the full passage →

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. — read the full passage →

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

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

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. — read the full passage →

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

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

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream. — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. — read the full passage →

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” — read the full passage →

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion. — read the full passage →

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward: — read the full passage →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

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

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: — read the full passage →

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, — read the full passage →

Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai. — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. — read the full passage →

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

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

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: — read the full passage →

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: — read the full passage →

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.” — read the full passage →

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.