Does God wants us to be poor?
Does God want us to be rich?
How should we handle our money?
Read the 35 Bible verses below….
Bible verses on wealth, poverty and money….
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A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Luke 16:13
No servant 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.”
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
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.
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 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.
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.
NOTE: This post was originality published October 26,2014
2 thoughts on “God and Money – 35 Bible Verses”
Thanks for sharing about money and where it lies in God;s eye. I have found that money is love and service. Meaning God knows it takes money to live in the world and to find its true place in His kingdom can only come from asking Him to guide us in its use. Selflessly giving money away is love and paying creditors is service. Money is not the root of evil but the love of it is.
What a great way to put it: “Selflessly giving money away is love and paying creditors is service”. Thanks for your thoughts..