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Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes
One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
Proverbs 11:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 22:26-27 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Romans 13:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Proverbs 6:1-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Ecclesiastes 5:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
Psalm 37:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
Proverbs 22:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.
Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Proverbs 6:1-2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 5:42 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 7 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.
John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 7 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 28:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 7 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.
Exodus 22:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.
1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. …
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Luke 12:15 ESV / 6 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.”
Luke 6:38 ESV / 6 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 28:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. …
Deuteronomy 15:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Luke 14:28 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?
Luke 6:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Luke 6:34-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 5 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.
Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 20:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 3:27-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
3 John 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 27:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
Proverbs 22:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. …
Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
Proverbs 13:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Psalm 24:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
1 Timothy 6:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
1 Timothy 6:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,
2 Thessalonians 3:10-11 ESV / 3 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. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, …
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 3 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,
2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
2 Corinthians 8:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.
Romans 13:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
John 16:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 14:28-30 ESV / 3 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.’
Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Ecclesiastes 5:19 ESV / 3 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.
Proverbs 24:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 11:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
Proverbs 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
Proverbs 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,
Proverbs 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Psalm 112:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 35:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
Psalm 15:5 ESV / 3 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.
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …
Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Deuteronomy 24:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.
Deuteronomy 15:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
Genesis 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
James 5:1-20 ESV / 2 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. …
James 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 2 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.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 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.
2 Corinthians 9:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
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