Managing Your Business

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

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

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; — read the full passage →

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

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

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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.

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

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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

“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’but you have made it a den of robbers!”

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

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

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way. — read the full passage →

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. — read the full passage →

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.