Bible verses about "budgeting" | NSB

²⁰ The wise have wealth and luxury but a fool spends all he gets.

⁶ Go to the ant, you lazy person. Consider her ways and be wise! ⁷ The lowly ant has no guide or overseer. ⁸ It prepares its food in the summer and gathers food at the harvest.

²³ Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds. ²⁴ Riches are not forever: and a crown does not endure for every generation. ²⁵ The hay appears and the tender grass shows itself. Herbs of the mountains are gathered. ²⁶ The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats bring the price of the field. ²⁷ You will have enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.

⁴ Do not exhaust yourself to get rich. Be wise and show restraint. ⁵ Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.

¹⁹ »Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ »Accumulate wealth in heaven where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ Your heart will be where you keep your wealth.

⁸ »The silver and gold of the world is mine,« said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. ¹⁸ They should do good works and be rich in good works, that they are ready to distribute, willing to communicate. ¹⁹ They store up for them a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life that is life indeed.

²³ Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and attend to your herds.

²² Without counsel plans fail. But in the multitude of counselors they are established.

³³ »Seek (desire) (require) (serve) first the kingdom of God and his righteousness [continuously] and all these things will be added to you.

²⁸ »If you plan to build a tower, you sit down first and figure out what it will cost. Then you see if you have enough money to finish the job. ²⁹ »If you do not, you will not be able to finish the project after laying the foundation. Everyone who sees what happened will ridicule and poke fun of you. ³⁰ »‘You started and could not finish,’ they will say.

² It is required of stewards that a man is trustworthy.

⁶ He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.

⁹ Honor Jehovah with your wealth and give him the best of all you have.

⁷ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.