Bible Verses About Bargaining
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And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Scripture Passages
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbourβs hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
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