100 Bible Verses about Obtaining Wealth

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 326 helpful votes

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 235 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 208 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 195 helpful votes

The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 190 helpful votes

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 187 helpful votes

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

1 Timothy 6:9-10 ESV / 170 helpful votes

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 167 helpful votes

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 23:4-5 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Luke 16:13 ESV / 131 helpful votes

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 128 helpful votes

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 124 helpful votes

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Mark 8:36 ESV / 118 helpful votes

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Luke 6:38 ESV / 115 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Proverbs 11:4 ESV / 115 helpful votes

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 113 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Proverbs 11:28 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

Proverbs 30:8-9 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 99 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 98 helpful votes

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 89 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

Luke 12:15 ESV / 86 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 82 helpful votes

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 82 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.

1 Timothy 6:17-18 ESV / 81 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 5:19 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 68 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 62 helpful votes

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 61 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?

Psalm 112:1-3 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Proverbs 23:4 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

James 5:1-6 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 52 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.

Mark 10:25 ESV / 52 helpful votes

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Proverbs 10:15 ESV / 51 helpful votes

A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 47 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Luke 12:15-21 ESV / 46 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 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.”’ ...

Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

James 2:5-6 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?

Malachi 3:9-10 ESV / 42 helpful votes

You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 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.

2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes

You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

Proverbs 28:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.

Proverbs 8:18-21 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

Proverbs 22:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all.

Deuteronomy 8:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Matthew 4:8-10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

Proverbs 31:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Matthew 6:19-20 ESV / 32 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.

Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Psalm 37:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Proverbs 14:24 ESV / 31 helpful votes

The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.

Luke 18:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Mark 10:23 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

Deuteronomy 8:1-20 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. ...

1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Ecclesiastes 10:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Proverbs 13:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.

2 Thessalonians 3:8-10 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Psalm 15:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 26 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.

Job 42:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Ezekiel 18:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Proverbs 23:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

2 Timothy 3:1-2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 22:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 23:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes

When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Psalm 94:12-13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Matthew 25:44-46 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 18 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.”

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Psalm 119:134 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep your precepts.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...

2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

Exodus 23:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

Mark 12:41-44 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

James 5:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

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