Bible verses about "economy" | Riverside

⁶ He replied, "Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites when he wrote: 'This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; ⁷ in vain they worship me, while they teach what are merely commandments of men.' ⁸ Neglecting the commands of God, you hold firmly to the traditions of men." ⁹ He said further to them, "How thoroughly you set aside the command of God so that you may keep your tradition!

¹ COME, now, you rich men, wail and lament over the miseries that are coming upon you. ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten, ³ your gold and silver are rusted over and the rust on them will be an evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. ⁴ You have laid up treasures in the last days. See, the wages of the laborers who reaped your fields, fraudulently kept back by you, call aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have come into the ears of the Lord of armies. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously in the land and have given yourselves up to pleasure. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.