Topic
Wasting Money
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There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swalloweth it up.
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
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. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →
The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
But thisI say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. — read the full passage →
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous: — read the full passage →
But thou shalt remember Jehovah 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 at this day.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.