100 Bible Verses About Wealth

Bible verses about Wealth

Exploring wealth through scripture offers profound insights beyond mere financial gain. The Bible reveals that true wealth encompasses spiritual riches, wisdom, and generosity. Understanding biblical principles about wealth cultivates a healthy perspective on possessions, stewardship, and our relationship with God. These verses guide us to prioritize eternal values over fleeting material comforts, encouraging us to use our resources to bless others and further God's kingdom. By studying these teachings, we can align our hearts with God's will, pursuing a life rich in faith, love, and lasting significance, recognizing that our ultimate treasure lies in Him.

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Judges 17:3 (KJV)

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.

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Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

Exodus 25:7KJV

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

Leviticus 24:18KJV

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

1 Kings 9:24KJV

Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

Numbers 18:14KJV

And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.

Leviticus 27:32KJV

And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En–rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:

1 Kings 1:9KJV

And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.

Exodus 37:26KJV

The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.

Numbers 7:86KJV

And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

1 Kings 10:16KJV

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Genesis 2:12KJV

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

Exodus 22:30KJV

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

Genesis 20:14KJV

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Psalms 10:6KJV

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

Proverbs 11:28KJV

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

Psalms 49:2KJV

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Deuteronomy 8:13KJV

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

Proverbs 1:14KJV

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

1 Kings 10:14KJV

And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

Genesis 47:16KJV

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 13:2KJV

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 13:19KJV

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Proverbs 28:6KJV

And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:6KJV

To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

Genesis 45:22KJV

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Kings 9:28KJV

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Proverbs 29:3KJV

So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Proverbs 3:10KJV

For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalms 49:10KJV

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

Proverbs 7:16KJV

And thou shalt make ouches of gold;

Exodus 28:13KJV

And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

Isaiah 23:3KJV

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 8:4KJV

And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

1 Kings 10:13KJV

A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Deuteronomy 8:9KJV

Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

Esther 2:18KJV

And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

Exodus 29:3KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:62KJV

And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

Judges 16:18KJV

And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

Exodus 28:18KJV

And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

2 Samuel 5:11KJV

And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

Exodus 39:13KJV

But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 8:18KJV

According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

Leviticus 25:15KJV

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Song of Solomon 8:7KJV

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Proverbs 15:17KJV

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

Exodus 25:24KJV

Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

Genesis 47:22KJV

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:11KJV

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24:1KJV

And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

Ruth 3:10KJV

And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Genesis 45:18KJV

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

Genesis 26:16KJV

And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

Genesis 39:6KJV

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

Psalms 83:12KJV

And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

1 Kings 6:28KJV

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Isaiah 10:9KJV

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

Isaiah 15:7KJV

In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 5:9KJV

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Proverbs 1:13KJV

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

For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 10:22KJV

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.

Proverbs 22:4KJV

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

Genesis 31:17KJV

And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

Numbers 22:40KJV

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

1 Samuel 2:7KJV

Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

2 Chronicles 32:28KJV

And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.

Leviticus 27:31KJV

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

Proverbs 11:24KJV

And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

1 Samuel 9:3KJV

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

Song of Solomon 1:12KJV

Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

Isaiah 60:11KJV

Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.

2 Samuel 16:4KJV

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

Genesis 34:29KJV

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Psalms 81:16KJV

And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

Exodus 9:6KJV

Even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:

Numbers 32:4KJV

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Proverbs 6:31KJV

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

2 Kings 5:20KJV

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Psalms 109:11KJV

Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

Genesis 44:11KJV

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

Proverbs 21:26KJV

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

Genesis 24:30KJV

And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

1 Samuel 2:32KJV

And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth–jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

Judges 10:4KJV

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

Exodus 25:39KJV

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

Proverbs 22:9KJV

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

Exodus 25:36KJV

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

Leviticus 25:47KJV

For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Ecclesiastes 7:12KJV

And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.

2 Chronicles 31:6KJV

He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

Deuteronomy 28:44KJV

We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.

Numbers 31:50KJV

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

Genesis 41:29KJV

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Proverbs 3:9KJV

And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

Judges 12:14KJV

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

Psalms 105:21KJV

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 7:25KJV

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 10:15KJV

Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

2 Kings 4:7KJV

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

Ecclesiastes 10:19KJV

The Bible's verses on wealth reveal a complex perspective, cautioning against its deceptive allure while acknowledging its potential for good. These scriptures emphasize that true wealth lies not in material possessions, but in spiritual riches, integrity, and a generous heart. We are called to manage earthly resources responsibly, using them to serve others and glorify God. Reflecting on these verses challenges us to examine our own attitudes towards wealth, prioritizing eternal values over fleeting treasures. May we seek wisdom in navigating the complexities of wealth, embracing a lifestyle of contentment, generosity, and unwavering faith, remembering that our ultimate security rests not in what we own, but in who owns us.