Bible Verses About Property
This collection includes 50 passages about Property. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Scripture Passages
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
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,
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
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:
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
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