Bible verses about "budgeting" | YLT

²⁰ A treasure to be desired, and oil, Is in the habitation of the wise, And a foolish man swalloweth it up.

⁶ Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; ⁷ Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler, ⁸ She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

²³ Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves, ²⁴ For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation. ²⁵ Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains. ²⁶ Lambs are for thy clothing, And the price of the field are he-goats, ²⁷ And a sufficiency of goats' milk is for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!

⁴ Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not. ⁵ For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

¹⁹ `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, ²⁰ but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal, ²¹ for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

⁸ Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁷ Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; — ¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate, ¹⁹ treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.

²³ Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

²² Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

²⁸ `For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing? ²⁹ lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying—This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

² and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

⁶ And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

⁹ Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

⁷ The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.