![]() ![]() “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money (Matthew 6:24) “But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.”ģ. It is God who gives you the ability to produce wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18) “Whoever loves money never has enough whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. Whoever loves money never has enough (Ecclesiastes 5:10) Take a look at these bible verses about managing finances.ġ. Christians are called to contentment with what God has given them in each stage of life. If we’re trying to find our happiness in money, we’ll never be satisfied.īefore we can steward what God gives us, we need to have a healthy relationship with money. Our tendency as sinful human beings is to want more money, a bigger house, a newer phone, and more expensive possessions. We live in a culture that tells us having more is better. To learn more about creating generational generosity within your church, download our free ebook, Generational Generosity.ĭownload the ebook How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Money So you may be wondering: What exactly does the Bible say about money? We’re called to properly steward what God has given us and foster a healthy relationship with money. Did you know there are over 2,000 Bible verses about managing finances that can guide us? And it can be challenging to have confidence in our money management with all the options thrown at us. multitudinem ex qua non est sperandus profectus", Schmidt, so Gussetius.Sometimes it feels like our lives revolve around making money and spending money. Jarchi allegorically interprets silver and abundance, of the commands, and the multitude of them.į6 ( hawbt al) "non erit proventus illi", Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus "nullum fructum percipit", Tigurine version.į7 "Qui amat copiam, sc. ![]() ![]() The immoderate love of money, coveting large estates and possessions, and to have a train of servants. That is, he that coveteth a great deal of this world's things shall not be satisfied with the increase of them, let that be what it will or, he shall have "no increase" F6, be ever the better for his abundance, or enjoy the comfort and benefit of it: or, "he that loveth abundance no increase" F7 that loves to have a multitude of people about him, as manservants and maidservants a large equipage, as Aben Ezra suggests, which are of very little use and service, or none at all this also vanity: Broughton renders it and herein the fruits of the earth, for which the husbandman labours, have the preference to silver for these he can eat, and be filled and satisfied with them, but he cannot eat his bags of gold and silver nor he that loveth abundance with increase The tillage of the earth is necessary, a very laudable and useful employment, and men do well to busy themselves in it without this, neither the common people nor the greatest personages can be supplied with the necessaries of life but then an immoderate love of money is criminal, which is here meant by loving silver, one kind of money, which when loved beyond measure is the root of all evil and besides, when a man has got ever so much of it, he is not satisfied, he still wants more, like the horse leech at the vein cries Give, give or he cannot eat silver, so Jarchi or be "fed with money", as Mr. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver
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