Bible Verses About Handling Your Finances
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for handling your finances, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,210 votes, led by Proverbs 22:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Handling Your Finances
Proverbs 22:7199 votes
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
1 Timothy 6:10152 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 13:5135 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 21:20129 votes
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Matthew 6:24125 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.
Proverbs 13:11116 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
2 Corinthians 9:6-7112 votes
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Proverbs 27:23-24106 votes
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Proverbs 3:9-1097 votes
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Luke 14:2894 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?
Philippians 4:1985 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 5:1082 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Malachi 3:1075 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.
Luke 14:28-3073 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?
Luke 16:1168 votes
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Proverbs 6:6-866 votes
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Matthew 25:14-3065 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.
1 Timothy 5:856 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 13:2238 votes
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
1 Timothy 6:17-1934 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;
Proverbs 10:4-528 votes
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Luke 16:10-1128 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 21:524 votes
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
1 Corinthians 16:224 votes
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
John 15:723 votes
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
What does the Bible say about handling your finances?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 22:7 on the subject of handling your finances. Across 2,210 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 6:10, Hebrews 13:5, Proverbs 21:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.