Scripture References to Finances

A comprehensive list of all the ways God speaks to us about our finances in Scripture

*Special thanks to Compass - Finances God\'s Way for providing the original Scripture list

Blessing

Responsibility

Riches

Genesis 1:28

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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God

Rest

Work

Genesis 2:2-3

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

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God

Work

Genesis 2:8

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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Good

Work

Genesis 2:15

15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

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Curse

Work

Genesis 3:17-19, 23

17 And to Adam he said,

  “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
  of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
  cursed is the ground because of you;
    in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18   thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19   By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
  till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
  for you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”

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Attitude

Giving

Genesis 4:3-5

In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.

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Attitude

Giving

Genesis 4:4

and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,

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Curse

Work

Genesis 5:29

29 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief1 from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”

Footnotes

[1] 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for rest

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Riches

Wealth

Genesis 12:5

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

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Riches

Wealth

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

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Dangers of Wealth

Riches

Wealth

Genesis 13:5-11

And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together, and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.1 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.” 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.

Footnotes

[1] 13:8 Hebrew we are men, brothers

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God

Ownership

Genesis 14:19

19 And he blessed him and said,

  “Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
    Possessor1 of heaven and earth;

Footnotes

[1] 14:19 Or Creator; also verse 22

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Giving

Tithe

Genesis 14:20

20   and blessed be God Most High,
    who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”

And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

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God

Ownership

Genesis 14:22

22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand1 to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,

Footnotes

[1] 14:22 Or I have taken a solemn oath

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God

Inheritance

Genesis 15:2-4

But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue1 childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son2 shall be your heir.”

Footnotes

[1] 15:2 Or I shall die
[2] 15:4 Hebrew what will come out of your own loins

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