What Does the Bible Say About Understanding Risk Management?

Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Luke 14:28-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

James 4:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 4 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. ...

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie. He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. ...

Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 4 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.

Proverbs 22:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Proverbs 19:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Genesis 41:34-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years. And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.”

15 Bible Verses about Understanding Risk Management

Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Luke 14:28-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 4:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 41:34-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Luke 14:28-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 4:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 41:34-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes