Bible Verses About Profit
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for profit, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 24,616 votes, led by Proverbs 14:23. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Profit
Proverbs 14:23802 votes
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Matthew 16:26683 votes
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
1 Timothy 6:10521 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.
Mark 8:36498 votes
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Acts 4:34481 votes
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
Acts 20:35478 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.
Acts 20:20470 votes
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
1 Timothy 6:17-19453 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 11:4440 votes
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
1 Corinthians 13:3432 votes
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Proverbs 10:2429 votes
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
2 Timothy 3:16-17387 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
1 Timothy 4:8386 votes
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Matthew 5:29375 votes
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Ecclesiastes 5:11372 votes
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
1 Timothy 3:16365 votes
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Matthew 6:19-21361 votes
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 7:21-23361 votes
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
2 Corinthians 9:6356 votes
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
James 1:27354 votes
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Matthew 16:1-26:75339 votes
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Acts 20:1-38337 votes
And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-11:10336 votes
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Mark 8:2333 votes
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
1 Timothy 3:2323 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
What does the Bible say about profit?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 14:23 on the subject of profit. Across 24,616 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 16:26, 1 Timothy 6:10, Mark 8:36. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.