What Does the Bible Say About Storage?

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Luke 12:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Luke 12:16-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ ...

Matthew 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

Proverbs 10:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Revelation 17:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...

Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Revelation 18:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.” Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. ...

Revelation 16:17-19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

1 Peter 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings, and so does Mark, my son.

James 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Titus 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

1 Corinthians 7:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

1 Corinthians 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 17:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.

John 17:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 16:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

John 15:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

John 14:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

John 14:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 14:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 12:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

John 12:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

34 Bible Verses about Storage

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 12:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 12:16-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 10:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 17:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 18:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 16:17-19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 17:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 16:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 15:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 12:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 12:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Storage

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 12:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 12:16-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 10:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 17:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 18:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Revelation 16:17-19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 7:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 2:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 17:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 17:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 16:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 15:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 12:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 12:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote