Christian FinanceWhat The Bible says about Money & Debt |
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| Money & The Bible What The Bible says about money |
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| What does the Scripture say about my monthly bills? Romans 13:7-8, "Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law." |
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| Be cautious about countersigning loan notes. Proverbs 22:26-27, TLB. "Unless you have extra cash on hand, don't countersign a note. Why risk everything you own? They'll even take your bed!" |
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| What reminder are we given about borrowing money from someone? Proverbs 22:7, NIV. ". . . the borrower is servant to the lender." |
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| God expects fairness in business dealings. Proverbs 16:11, TLB. "The Lord demands fairness in every business deal. He established this principle." |
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| Honesty and fairness are expected of those who wish to please God. Isaiah 33:15, TLB. "I will tell you who can live here: All who are honest and fair, who reject making profit by fraud, who hold back their hands from taking bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong." |
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Where do material blessings come from? Deuteronomy 8:18 NIV "remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth." |
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Can money get in the way of more important things? Jeremiah 9:23-24. Wealth can become the center of our life and take God's place. "This is what the Lord says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the Lord." |
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Wealth can give us wrong attitudes about material things, Luke 12:15 NIV "Then [Jesus] said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." |
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| You cannot serve both God and Money. I Timothy 6:9, NIV "People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction." |
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Though not impossible, it's difficult for the rich to enter heaven - God's kingdom. Mark 10:23-25, NIV. "Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!" The disciples were amazed at His words. Then Jesus said, "Children, how hard it is to enter 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 the kingdom of God!" |
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The love of money leads to evil. I Timothy 6:10, NIV. "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." |
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Greed often accompanies prosperity and can lead to crime.James 4:1-2, "What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it because there is a whole army of evil desires within you? You want what you don't have, so you kill to get it. You long for what others have, and can't afford it, so you start a fight to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it." |
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What is the financial counsel of Solomon, the wisest and richest man who ever lived? Ecclesiastes 5:10-20, TLB. "He who loves money shall never have enough. The foolishness of thinking that wealth brings happiness! The more you have, the more you spend, right up to the limits of your income, so what is the advantage of wealth - except perhaps to watch it as it runs through your fingers! The man who works hard sleeps well whether he eats little or much, but the rich must worry and suffer insomnia. There is another serious problem I have seen everywhere -savings are put into risky investments that turn sour, and soon there is nothing left to pass on to one's son. The man who speculates is soon back to where he began-with nothing. This, as I said, is a very serious problem, for all his hard work has been for nothing. It is all swept away. All the rest of his life he is under a cloud-gloomy, discouraged, frustrated, and angry. . . . To enjoy your work and to accept your lot in life -that is indeed a gift from God. The person who does that will not need to look back with sorrow on his past, for God gives him joy." |
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God asks us to return tithe [10%] and offerings to Him and in return He promises unlimited blessings. Christ endorsed tithing. How may all, rich and poor, honor God? investment . . . Christs teachings don't advise investements that are safe or investments of limited liability. His teachings always encourage stepping out in faith but always coulpled with wisdom. In fact there is no safe investment. Contentment is not related to amount of money or possessions. Philippians 4:12-13, TLB. A valuable reminder for property owners. |
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