What Does the Bible Say About Treasure?

Luke 12:34 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 44 helpful votes

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:19 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

Proverbs 2:4-5 ESV / 29 helpful votes

If you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Matthew 13:44 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Colossians 2:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Isaiah 45:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

Luke 12:33 ESV / 14 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.

2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

Isaiah 33:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure.

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 29:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the Lord, in the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

2 Corinthians 8:1-24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. ...

Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Matthew 13:52 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Philippians 3:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 6:31-33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Genesis 42:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Acts 15:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Proverbs 3:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.

Exodus 25:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair, tanned rams' skins, goatskins, acacia wood, ...

Proverbs 31:10-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Genesis 42:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.

Genesis 43:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He replied, “Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

Genesis 42:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

29 Bible Verses about Treasure