Bible Verses About Investment
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for investment, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 821 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 11:1-6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Investment
Ecclesiastes 11:1-6111 votes
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Proverbs 22:772 votes
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Luke 12:33-3468 votes
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Matthew 6:2059 votes
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
2 Corinthians 9:655 votes
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Acts 20:3546 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.
Luke 6:3844 votes
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Deuteronomy 15:436 votes
Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
1 John 3:1728 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Leviticus 19:23-2527 votes
And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
1 John 2:15-1727 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Joshua 1:826 votes
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Proverbs 1:1-3325 votes
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Proverbs 13:1122 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
2 Timothy 2:1522 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Luke 14:13-1417 votes
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
John 3:1-3615 votes
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Matthew 25:14-3014 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.
2 Timothy 3:16-1714 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Psalms 91:1213 votes
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Ecclesiastes 11:213 votes
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
Malachi 3:1-1813 votes
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Romans 12:1-212 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Psalms 119:1-17611 votes
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Luke 14:28-3011 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?
What does the Bible say about investment?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 on the subject of investment. Across 821 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:7, Luke 12:33-34, Matthew 6:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.