Bible Verses about “quick money”
The Bible contains 28 verses about quick money across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.”
“Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."”
“for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
“but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;”
“"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;”
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
“Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.”
“He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."”
“But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.”
“that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;”
“Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;”
“laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.”
“He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.”
“Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.”
“Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.”
“The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.”
“A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.”
“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.”
“Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.”
“Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.”
“You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.”
“Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.”
“He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.”
“A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.”
“Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.”
“You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.”
“An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.”
“As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.”