Pr 10:4A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.Pr 13:11Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.Job 20:10His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.2Co 8:2for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.Pr 22:16Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.Pr 10:15A rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.Pr 14:20The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.Ac 19:25These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.Lu 16:8The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.Ps 49:2both low and high, rich and poor together!Pr 28:8Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.Lu 12:16And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully,Pr 19:4Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.Lu 16:1He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.Pr 14:23In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.Pr 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.Php 2:4Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.Pr 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.Ge 43:1Now the famine was severe in the land.Pr 28:11A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.Lu 16:23and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.Ec 5:11When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?Ge 30:25As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.Lu 7:41“A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.1Co 7:26I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.Pr 28:25A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.Ge 41:57Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.Ge 47:1So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”2Co 8:14your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.1Ti 6:5and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.Eze 28:5by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—Job 22:2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.Ge 26:13and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.Col 1:7just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalfGe 42:6Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.Ge 36:16Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.Pr 11:24One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.2Co 12:14Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.Lu 19:18And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made five minas.’Pr 19:6Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.Ge 42:1When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”De 8:17Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’Lu 20:1One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came upEc 4:9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.Pr 22:9Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.Mt 25:14“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.Ge 31:1Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.”Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.Lu 12:13Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”2Sa 12:2The rich man had very many flocks and herds,Ge 47:15And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.”Ga 4:19my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!Pr 18:16A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.Ec 5:10He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.Pr 27:17Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.Pr 6:11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.Pr 24:34and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.Pr 22:7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.Pr 28:19Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.Lu 12:15And 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.”1Th 1:7so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.Pr 1:19Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.Col 4:13For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.Ac 19:24For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.2Ti 2:6It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.2Th 3:12Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.Ps 37:26He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.1Sa 25:2And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.Eph 2:7so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.Mt 25:15To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.1Th 2:1For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.Ge 42:7Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”Lu 19:13Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.1Ti 6:17As 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.Lu 18:9He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:Ec 4:12And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.Lu 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.Pr 11:26The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.Ac 7:14And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.Pr 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.Ec 5:14and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.1Ti 6:10For 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.Lu 19:16The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’1Th 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.Lu 11:8I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.Ge 47:20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s.De 19:2you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.Ac 20:35In 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.’”Pr 1:14throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—Mic 3:11Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”Ec 5:8If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.Job 41:6Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?Job 5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.Ge 47:6The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”Ge 42:18On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:Pr 20:13Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.Pr 28:3A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.