100 Bible Verses About Stewardship of resources

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

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:

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:

And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

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.

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

And threescore and one thousand asses,

Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.

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.

But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;

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.

And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests’ garments.

As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

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?

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

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:

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.