- Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
but righteousness delivers from death. - I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
- 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?
- 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.
- I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies,
as much as in all riches. - 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.
- Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!
- But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from Yahweh. - Yahweh makes poor and makes rich.
He brings low, he also lifts up. - Better is a little with righteousness,
than great revenues with injustice. - As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
- Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
- The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,
but the righteous give generously. - The rich rule over the poor.
The borrower is servant to the lender. - What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
- Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
- The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
but the poor hear no threats. - You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
- But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
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