100 Bible Verses About Financial Stewardship

Bible verses about Financial Stewardship

Exploring financial stewardship through scripture offers profound guidance for aligning our resources with God's purpose. The Bible provides timeless principles for managing wealth, generosity, and financial responsibility. Understanding these verses empowers us to move beyond worldly perspectives on money and embrace a Kingdom-minded approach. By studying biblical teachings on stewardship, we learn to view our finances as tools for blessing, service, and glorifying God. These verses illuminate the path to financial freedom, not just from debt, but also from the bondage of materialism, leading us to a life of purpose, generosity, and eternal reward.

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Isaiah 2:22 (KJV)

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

God's Plan: Financial Stewardship Bible Verses

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 15:8KJV

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

Proverbs 5:21KJV

In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30:16KJV

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

Psalms 25:20KJV

And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

Leviticus 10:14KJV

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Job 27:19KJV

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Psalms 49:17KJV

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.

Genesis 31:16KJV

And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

Genesis 37:25KJV

And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 6:24KJV

And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

Numbers 3:48KJV

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Jeremiah 10:4KJV

And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

Genesis 20:14KJV

One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:20KJV

Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

1 Kings 20:3KJV

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

Isaiah 56:11KJV

But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.

Joshua 6:19KJV

And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

2 Chronicles 8:18KJV

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.

Leviticus 27:28KJV

And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

Nehemiah 13:13KJV

On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:

Numbers 7:66KJV

Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Deuteronomy 7:14KJV

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Isaiah 2:22KJV

The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.

Deuteronomy 18:1KJV

And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

Exodus 21:35KJV

And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

Deuteronomy 15:13KJV

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 23:5KJV

Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

Psalms 119:175KJV

And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord;

1 Samuel 30:26KJV

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalms 84:12KJV

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 22:2KJV

And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Leviticus 27:5KJV

Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.

Ruth 3:18KJV

Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Isaiah 23:2KJV

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

1 Kings 5:11KJV

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

Judges 17:3KJV

Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Leviticus 23:25KJV

And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

Deuteronomy 13:17KJV

Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

Deuteronomy 24:11KJV

Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Job 36:19KJV

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

Psalms 115:14KJV

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalms 40:17KJV

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

Proverbs 8:19KJV

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

Isaiah 30:22KJV

And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 8:5KJV

Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

Numbers 7:85KJV

For it was the king’s commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.

Nehemiah 11:23KJV

And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

Leviticus 26:23KJV

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Deuteronomy 8:6KJV

Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 25:49KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:38KJV

And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

2 Chronicles 31:15KJV

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Proverbs 6:1KJV

And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.

Exodus 38:28KJV

And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

Ezra 2:68KJV

God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

2 Samuel 22:33KJV

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Job 13:23KJV

And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

Numbers 18:27KJV

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Proverbs 22:9KJV

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.

Leviticus 27:15KJV

Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.

Joshua 24:23KJV

And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Isaiah 58:11KJV

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 5:2KJV

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

Psalms 115:4KJV

And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

Ruth 2:18KJV

And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 3:51KJV

And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house:

2 Chronicles 34:10KJV

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

Deuteronomy 24:19KJV

His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

Numbers 7:79KJV

But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

2 Samuel 12:3KJV

And the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

Numbers 31:37KJV

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Jeremiah 5:28KJV

And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

Leviticus 7:32KJV

The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.

Proverbs 29:13KJV

And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

Genesis 27:37KJV

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.

Leviticus 27:30KJV

That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

Psalms 104:28KJV

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

Exodus 30:3KJV

For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

2 Samuel 22:23KJV

And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;

Numbers 28:20KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:56KJV

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

Exodus 26:29KJV

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:8KJV

Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

Deuteronomy 13:4KJV

Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Leviticus 22:19KJV

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

Numbers 11:22KJV

If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Leviticus 25:51KJV

Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord.

Exodus 30:14KJV

And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

Exodus 38:25KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:62KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:80KJV

Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.

Nehemiah 7:69KJV

And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

Genesis 31:12KJV

And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

Numbers 31:30KJV

Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

Exodus 22:29KJV

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

Numbers 11:13KJV

And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

Exodus 36:24KJV

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Leviticus 26:35KJV

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

Ezra 9:12KJV

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

Exodus 39:40KJV

The Bible offers profound wisdom regarding financial stewardship, highlighting principles of diligent work, wise saving, generous giving, and avoidance of debt. Verses explored emphasize that all we possess ultimately belongs to God and we are merely stewards entrusted with managing these resources responsibly. True financial freedom isn't found in accumulating wealth, but in aligning our financial practices with God's will, seeking His guidance in our decisions, and using our resources to bless others and advance His kingdom. As we reflect on these scriptures, let us examine our own hearts and habits, seeking to cultivate a spirit of contentment, generosity, and responsible management. May we be faithful stewards who honor God with our finances, impacting the world around us and storing up treasures in heaven.