Bible on Wealth

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

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

Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

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

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

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

But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

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

Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

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

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

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

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

But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

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

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

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

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

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

And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;

Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.

And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

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