- For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, busy with this very thing.
- Likewise all to whom God gives wealth and possessions and whom he enables to enjoy them, and to accept their lot and find enjoyment in their toil—this is the gift of God.
- The wealth of the rich is their strong city;
in their imagination it is like a high wall. - Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death. - How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
- I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.
- Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,
but righteousness delivers from death. - I delight in the way of your decrees
as much as in all riches. - Riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might; and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all.
- “Ananias,” Peter asked, “why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You did not lie to us but to God!”
- House and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord. - The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low, he also exalts. - Better is a little with righteousness
than large income with injustice. - Turn my heart to your decrees,
and not to selfish gain. - As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
- And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- It is well with those who deal generously and lend,
who conduct their affairs with justice. - When goods increase, those who eat them increase; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
- The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender. - The wicked borrow, and do not pay back,
but the righteous are generous and keep giving. - As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.
- Let the believer who is lowly boast in being raised up, and the rich in being brought low, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.
- You shall not make gods of silver alongside me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
- Wealth is a ransom for a person's life,
but the poor get no threats.
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