Look through this list... How much better off would we all be if this became the guiding influence in how we managed our money?
Pastor Noel
| 9 Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. 10 Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine. | |
| 1 My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger— 2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said— 3 follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased. 4 Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do. 5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net. | |
| 10 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— 11 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber. | |
| Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich. | |
| The blessing of the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. | |
| Riches won’t help on the day of judgment, but right living can save you from death. | |
| There’s danger in putting up security for a stranger’s debt; it’s safer not to guarantee another person’s debt. | |
| Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything. | |
| The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. | |
| Trust in your money and down you go! But the godly flourish like leaves in spring. | |
| Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper. | |
| Some who are poor pretend to be rich; others who are rich pretend to be poor. | |
| The rich can pay a ransom for their lives, but the poor won’t even get threatened. | |
| Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time. | |
| If you ignore criticism, you will end in poverty and disgrace; if you accept correction, you will be honored. | |
| Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth passes to the godly. | |
| Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty! | |
| Better to have little, with fear for the Lord, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil. | |
| It’s poor judgment to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for a friend. | |
| Better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and a fool. | |
| Wealth makes many “friends”; poverty drives them all away. | |
| Fathers can give their sons an inheritance of houses and wealth, but only the Lord can give an understanding wife. | |
| If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord— and he will repay you! | |
| If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat! | |
| An inheritance obtained too early in life is not a blessing in the end. | |
| Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. | |
| Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in their own time of need. | |
| The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get. | |
| Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender. | |
| A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty. | |
| Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else. | |
| 4 Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit. 5 In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle. | |
| Know the state of your flocks, and put your heart into caring for your herds, | |
| Better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and rich. | |
| Income from charging high interest rates will end up in the pocket of someone who is kind to the poor. | |
| Greedy people try to get rich quick but don’t realize they’re headed for poverty. | |
| Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed. | |
| 8 First, help me never to tell a lie. Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs. 9 For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name. | |
| 24 There are four things on earth that are small but unusually wise: 25 Ants—they aren’t strong, but they store up food all summer. | |
| Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! |
