100 Bible Verses about Profit

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 800 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 681 helpful votes

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 519 helpful votes

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Mark 8:36 ESV / 497 helpful votes

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Acts 4:34 ESV / 479 helpful votes

There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold

Acts 20:35 ESV / 477 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Acts 20:20 ESV / 469 helpful votes

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 452 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

Proverbs 11:4 ESV / 438 helpful votes

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 431 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 428 helpful votes

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 386 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 385 helpful votes

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 376 helpful votes

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Ecclesiastes 5:11 ESV / 371 helpful votes

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 360 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 360 helpful votes

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 356 helpful votes

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

James 1:27 ESV / 354 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Matthew 16:1-26:75 ESV / 339 helpful votes

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. ...

Acts 20:1-38 ESV / 337 helpful votes

After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, ...

Ecclesiastes 5:1-11:10 ESV / 336 helpful votes

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words. When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. ...

Mark 8:2 ESV / 332 helpful votes

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 322 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 321 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 304 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 281 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 262 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 258 helpful votes

“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.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 250 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Ecclesiastes 1:3 ESV / 236 helpful votes

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

Proverbs 14:2 ESV / 236 helpful votes

Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.

2 Corinthians 2:17 ESV / 226 helpful votes

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 226 helpful votes

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 220 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 219 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 216 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 214 helpful votes

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 209 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 24:30-34 ESV / 200 helpful votes

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

John 5:17 ESV / 199 helpful votes

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Ecclesiastes 2:24 ESV / 198 helpful votes

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

John 3:16 ESV / 197 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Genesis 26:12-14 ESV / 196 helpful votes

And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.

Ecclesiastes 3:17 ESV / 192 helpful votes

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 175 helpful votes

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Luke 16:11 ESV / 173 helpful votes

If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 173 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

1 Peter 5:2 ESV / 171 helpful votes

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 170 helpful votes

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 167 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Luke 12:15 ESV / 166 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 163 helpful votes

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 160 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 159 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

James 5:1 ESV / 158 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 157 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Luke 12:33 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 155 helpful votes

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:1 ESV / 155 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 154 helpful votes

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Isaiah 48:17 ESV / 154 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 150 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 144 helpful votes

And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

Malachi 3:14 ESV / 142 helpful votes

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Proverbs 14:1-23:35 ESV / 138 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 135 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 134 helpful votes

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 131 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 37:16-17 ESV / 130 helpful votes

Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.

Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 130 helpful votes

The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Exodus 22:25 ESV / 129 helpful votes

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Jeremiah 7:8 ESV / 128 helpful votes

“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.

James 5:1-6 ESV / 125 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...

James 2:14 ESV / 124 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 124 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Jeremiah 12:13 ESV / 120 helpful votes

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 117 helpful votes

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Matthew 7:2 ESV / 116 helpful votes

For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 112 helpful votes

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Proverbs 14:24 ESV / 111 helpful votes

The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.

Proverbs 14:22 ESV / 111 helpful votes

Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.

John 3:2 ESV / 108 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Proverbs 10:1-12:28 ESV / 108 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. ...

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 106 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 104 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 11:1-14:35 ESV / 100 helpful votes

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. ...

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 98 helpful votes

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

1 Timothy 6:6 ESV / 96 helpful votes

But godliness with contentment is great gain,

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 88 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Proverbs 31:18 ESV / 81 helpful votes

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Philemon 1:11 ESV / 80 helpful votes

(Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)

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