Bible verses about "making money" | ISV

¹ A Davidic Psalm
God is My Refuge The one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, who rests in the shadow of the Almighty, ² will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge, my fortress, and my God in whom I trust!” ³ He will surely deliver you from the hunter’s snare and from the destructive plague. ⁴ With his feathers he will cover you, under his wings you will find safety. His truth is your shield and armor. ⁵ You need not fear terror that stalks in the night, the arrow that flies in the day, ⁶ plague that strikes in the darkness, or calamity that destroys at noon. ⁷ If a thousand fall at your side or ten thousand at your right hand, it will not overcome you. ⁸ Only observe it with your eyes, and you will see how the wicked are paid back. ⁹ “LORD, you are my refuge!” Because you chose the Most High as your dwelling place, ¹⁰ no evil will fall upon you, and no affliction will approach your tent, ¹¹ for he will command his angels to protect you in all your ways. ¹² With their hands they will lift you up so you will not trip over a stone. ¹³ You will stomp on lions and snakes; you will trample young lions and serpents.
¹⁴ The LORD SpeaksBecause he has focused his love on me, I will deliver him. I will protect him because he knows my name. ¹⁵ When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him in his distress. I will deliver him, and I will honor him. ¹⁶ I will satisfy him with long life; I will show him my deliverance.

¹ Teaching about Giving to the Poor “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. ² So whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow a trumpet before you like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they will be praised by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward! ³ But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your giving may be done in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
⁵ Teaching about Prayer
“And whenever you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward! ⁶ But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees from the hidden place will reward you.
⁷ “When you are praying, don’t say meaningless things like the unbelievers do, because they think they will be heard by being so wordy. ⁸ Don’t be like them, because your Father knows what you need before you ask him. ⁹ Therefore, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. ¹⁰ May your kingdom come. May your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. ¹¹ Give us today our daily bread, ¹² and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us. ¹³ And never bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
¹⁴ Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive people their offenses, your Father will not forgive your offenses.”
¹⁶ Teaching about Fasting“Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites, because they put on sad faces to show others they are fasting. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward! ¹⁷ But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, ¹⁸ so that your fasting will not be noticed by others but by your Father who is in the hidden place. And your Father who watches from the hidden place will reward you.”
¹⁹ Teaching about Treasures
“Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal, ²¹ because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
²² The Lamp of the Body
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light within you has turned into darkness, how great is that darkness!”
²⁴ God and Riches
“No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!”
²⁵ Stop Worrying
“That’s why I’m telling you to stop worrying about your life—what you will eat or what you will drink—or about your body—what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn’t it, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren’t you? ²⁷ Can any of you add a single hour to the length of your life by worrying? ²⁸ And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies in the field and how they grow. They don’t work or spin yarn, ²⁹ but I tell you that not even Solomon in all of his splendor was clothed like one of them. ³⁰ Now if that is the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, won’t he clothe you much better—you who have little faith?
³¹ “So don’t ever worry by saying, ‘What are we going to eat?’ or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?’ ³² because it is the unbelievers who are eager for all those things. Surely your heavenly Father knows that you need all of them! ³³ But first be concerned about God’s kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well. ³⁴ So never worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

¹ The Parable about a Banquet
Again Jesus spoke to them in parables. He said, ² “The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. ³ He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come. ⁴ So he sent other servants after saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! I’ve prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered. Everything is ready. Come to the wedding!”’ ⁵ But they paid no attention to this and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. ⁶ The rest grabbed the king’s servants, treated them brutally, and then killed them. ⁷ Then the king became outraged. He sent his troops, and they destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
⁸ “Then he told his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. ⁹ So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.’ ¹⁰ Those servants went out into the streets and brought in everyone they found, evil and good alike, and the wedding hall was packed with guests.
¹¹ “When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. ¹² He asked him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless. ¹³ Then the king told his servants, ‘Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the darkness outside!’ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, ¹⁴ because many are invited, but few are chosen.”
¹⁵ A Question about Paying Taxes
Then the Pharisees went and planned how to trap Jesus in conversation. ¹⁶ They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. They said, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere and that you teach the way of God truthfully. You don’t favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. ¹⁷ So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
¹⁸ Recognizing their wickedness, Jesus asked, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹ Show me the coin used for the tax.”
They brought him a denarius. ²⁰ Then he asked them, “Whose face and name is this?”
²¹ They told him, “Caesar’s.”
So he told them, “Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
²² When they heard this, they were amazed. Then they left him and went away.
²³ A Question about the Resurrection
That same day some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him, ²⁴ “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for his brother.’ ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother. ²⁶ The same thing happened with the second brother, and then the third, and finally with the rest of the brothers. ²⁷ Finally, the woman died, too. ²⁸ Now in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be, since all of them had married her?”
²⁹ Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power, ³⁰ because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven. ³¹ As for the resurrection from the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God when he said, ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
³³ When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.
³⁴ The Greatest Commandment
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they met together in the same place. ³⁵ One of them, an expert in the Law, tested him by asking, ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
³⁷ Jesus told him, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the greatest and most important commandment. ³⁹ The second is exactly like it: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.”
⁴¹ A Question about David’s Son
While the Pharisees were still gathered, Jesus asked them, ⁴² “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”
They told him, “David’s.”
⁴³ He asked them, “Then how can David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord’ when he says, ⁴⁴ ‘The Lord told my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’?
⁴⁵ If David calls him ‘Lord’, how can he be his son?”
⁴⁶ No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.

⁶ Give liquor to someone who is perishing, and wine to someone who is deeply depressed. ⁷ Let him drink, forget his poverty, and remember his troubles no more.

¹ Jesus the Way to the Father “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. ² There are many rooms in my Father’s house. If there weren’t, I wouldn’t have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I? ³ And since I’m going away to prepare a place for you, I’ll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am. ⁴ You know where I am going, and you know the way.”
⁵ Thomas asked him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
⁶ Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him.”
⁸ Philip told him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us.”
⁹ “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?” Jesus asked him. “The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ You believe, don’t you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don’t speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work. ¹¹ Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of what I’ve been doing. ¹² Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I’m doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I’m going to the Father. ¹³ I’ll do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.”
¹⁵ The Promise of the Helper“If you love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶ I will ask the Father to give you another Helper, to be with you always. ¹⁷ He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I’m not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.
¹⁹ “In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ At that time, you’ll know that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and that I am in you. ²¹ The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him.”
²² Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, “Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
²³ Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him. ²⁴ The one who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The words that you’re hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.
²⁵ “I have told you this while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you. ²⁷ I’m leaving you at peace. I’m giving you my own peace. I’m not giving it to you as the world gives. So don’t let your hearts be troubled, and don’t be afraid. ²⁸ You have heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away, but I’m coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I’m going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am. ²⁹ I’ve told you this now, before I leave, so that when I do leave, you will believe. ³⁰ I won’t talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me. ³¹ But I’m doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place.”

¹³ Do Not Boast about Future PlansNow listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.”

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.