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Money
The following are the words of Jesus Christ
only, what He taught about money. Texts are from the four
Gospels and Acts, KJV and the NIV.
It is more blessed to give than to
receive.
Whoever can be trusted
with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever
is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with
much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling
worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if
you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property,
who will give you property of your own?
No servant can serve two masters: for either
he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to
the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Children, how
hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom
of God! It is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to
enter into the kingdom of God...
With men it is impossible, but
not with God: for with God all things are possible... Verily I say unto you, There is no man that
hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
But he shall receive an hundredfold now in
this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and
children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come
eternal life.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have
omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and
faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
undone.
Give, and it
shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken
together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with
the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you
again.
For the kingdom of heaven
will be like
a man going on a journey, who called his servants and
entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents
of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent,
each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.
The man who had received the five talents went at once and
put his money to work and gained five more. So also, the one
with the two talents gained two more. But the man who had
received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground
and hid his master's money.
After a long time the
master of those servants returned and settled accounts with
them. The man who had received the five talents brought the
other five. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with five
talents. See, I have gained five more. His master replied,
'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many
things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
The man with the two
talents also came. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with
two talents; see, I have gained two more. His master
replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have
been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of
many things. Come and share your master's happiness!
Then the man who had
received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew
that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown
and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was
afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See,
here is what belongs to you. His master replied, 'You
wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I
have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?
Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the
bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it
back with interest. Take the talent from him and give it to
the one who has the ten talents. For everyone who has will
be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does
not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw
that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
...Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than
raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth
them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking
thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought
for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they
toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is,
and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more
clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought,
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal
shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles
seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
The ground of a certain rich man
brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying,
What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my
fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and
build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for
many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But
God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be
required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast
provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and
is not rich toward God.
Lay not up
for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
What thinkest
thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take taxes or
tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
... Then are
the children free. Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go
thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first
cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a
piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Jesus sat down opposite the
place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd
putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich
people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put
in two very small copper coins, worth only a
fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus
said, I tell you the
truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than
all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she,
out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live
on.
Take heed,
and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the
abundance of the things which he possesseth.
There was a rich man whose manager was
accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and
asked him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account
of your management, because you cannot be manager any
longer.'
The manager said to
himself, 'What shall I do now? My master is taking away my
job. I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm ashamed to beg— I
know what I'll do so that, when I lose my job here, people
will welcome me into their houses. So he called in each one
of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much do
you owe my master?
Eight hundred gallons
of olive oil, he replied. The manager told him, 'Take your
bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.'
Then he asked the
second, 'And how much do you owe? A thousand bushels
of wheat, he replied. He told him, 'Take your bill and
make it eight hundred.'
The master commended the
dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the
people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their
own kind than are the people of the light. I tell you, use
worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when
it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
Whoever can be trusted
with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever
is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with
much.
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