Bible Verses About Handling Money
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for handling money, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,187 votes, led by Matthew 6:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Handling Money
Matthew 6:24190 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
1 Timothy 6:10186 votes
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Hebrews 13:5167 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Proverbs 22:7153 votes
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Luke 14:28147 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Ecclesiastes 5:10138 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Proverbs 13:11128 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Proverbs 3:9-10127 votes
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Matthew 25:14-30124 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Luke 16:11113 votes
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
1 Timothy 6:17-19104 votes
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
2 Corinthians 9:6-792 votes
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Proverbs 21:2082 votes
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Proverbs 11:2848 votes
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Proverbs 27:23-2440 votes
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Malachi 3:1040 votes
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
2 Corinthians 9:740 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Luke 12:1539 votes
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Philippians 4:1936 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 5:832 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Proverbs 11:24-2524 votes
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Matthew 6:19-2124 votes
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Luke 16:10-1124 votes
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Proverbs 23:4-520 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Acts 20:3520 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
What does the Bible say about handling money?
Readers most often cite Matthew 6:24 on the subject of handling money. Across 2,187 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 6:10, Hebrews 13:5, Proverbs 22:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.