MONEY

Passages on this topic · 164

• Genesis 13:2

  Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

• Genesis 17:12

  He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:13

  He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

• Genesis 17:23

  Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

• Genesis 17:27

  All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

• Genesis 20:16

  To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

• Genesis 23:9

  that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.”

• Genesis 23:13

  He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

• Genesis 23:16

  Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

• Genesis 24:35

  Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 31:15

  Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

• Genesis 37:28

  Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

• Genesis 42:25

  Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

• Genesis 42:26

  They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

• Genesis 42:27

  As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

• Genesis 42:28

  He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

• Genesis 42:29

  They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

• Genesis 42:30

  “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

• Genesis 42:31

  We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies.

• Genesis 42:32

  We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

• Genesis 42:33

  The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

• Genesis 42:34

  Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”

• Genesis 42:35

  As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

• Genesis 43:12

  and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

• Genesis 43:13

  Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

• Genesis 43:14

  May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

• Genesis 43:15

  The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

• Genesis 43:16

  When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”

• Genesis 43:17

  The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.

• Genesis 43:18

  The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

• Genesis 43:19

  They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

• Genesis 43:20

  and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

• Genesis 43:21

  When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

• Genesis 43:22

  We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.”

• Genesis 43:23

  He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

• Genesis 44:1

  He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

• Genesis 44:2

  Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

• Genesis 44:3

  As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

• Genesis 44:4

  When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

• Genesis 44:5

  Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”

• Genesis 44:6

  He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

• Genesis 44:7

  They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

• Genesis 44:8

  Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house?

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 47:15

  When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”

• Genesis 47:16

  Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

• Genesis 47:17

  They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

• Genesis 47:18

  When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

• Exodus 12:44

  but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

• Exodus 21:11

  If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

• Exodus 21:21

  Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

• Exodus 21:34

  the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

• Exodus 21:35

  “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

• Exodus 22:7

  “If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

• Exodus 22:17

  If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

• Exodus 22:25

  “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

• Exodus 30:12

  “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.

• Exodus 30:13

  They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs ); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:14

  Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

• Exodus 30:16

  You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”

• Leviticus 5:15

  “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

• Leviticus 5:16

  He shall make restitution for that which he has done wrong in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 22:11

  But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

• Leviticus 25:37

  You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

• Leviticus 25:51

  If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

• Leviticus 27:15

  If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

• Leviticus 27:18

  But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.

• Numbers 3:48

  and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”

• Numbers 3:49

  Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

• Numbers 3:50

  from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

• Numbers 3:51

  and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to Yahweh’s word, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Numbers 18:16

  You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.

• Deuteronomy 2:6

  You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”

• Deuteronomy 2:28

  You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,

• Deuteronomy 14:25

  then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.

• Deuteronomy 14:26

  You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

• Deuteronomy 21:14

  It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

• Deuteronomy 23:19

  You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

• Judges 5:19

  “The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.

• Judges 16:18

  When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

• Judges 17:2

  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

• Judges 17:4

  When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made an engraved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

• 1 Kings 21:6

  He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 2 Kings 5:26

  He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

• 2 Kings 12:4

  Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Kings 12:7

  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”

• 2 Kings 12:8

  The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, and not repair the damage to the house.

• 2 Kings 12:9

  But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

• 2 Kings 12:10

  When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 12:11

  They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

• 2 Kings 12:13

  But there were not made for Yahweh’s house cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house;

• 2 Kings 12:14

  for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired Yahweh’s house with it.

• 2 Kings 12:15

  Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

• 2 Kings 12:16

  The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings was not brought into Yahweh’s house. It was the priests’.

• 2 Kings 15:20

  Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.

• 2 Kings 22:7

  However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

• 2 Kings 22:9

  Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hands of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Kings 23:35

  Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

• 1 Chronicles 21:25

  So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

• 2 Chronicles 24:5

  He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.

• 2 Chronicles 24:11

  Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 24:14

  When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.

• 2 Chronicles 34:9

  They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:14

  When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses.

• 2 Chronicles 34:17

  They have emptied out the money that was found in Yahweh’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.”

• Ezra 3:7

  They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

• Ezra 7:17

  therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

• Ezra 8:25

  and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.

• Ezra 8:26

  I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold,

• Ezra 8:27

  twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Esther 4:7

  Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

• Job 28:15

  It can’t be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

• Job 31:39

  if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

• Psalms 15:5

  he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

• Proverbs 7:20

  He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

• Ecclesiastes 7:12

  For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

• Ecclesiastes 10:19

  A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

• Isaiah 13:17

  Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

• Isaiah 43:24

  You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

• Isaiah 46:6

  Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down — yes, they worship.

• Isaiah 52:3

  For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”

• Isaiah 55:1

  “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

• Isaiah 55:2

  Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

• Isaiah 60:9

  Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

• Jeremiah 32:9

  I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

• Jeremiah 32:10

  I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

• Jeremiah 32:25

  You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

• Jeremiah 32:44

  Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return,” says Yahweh.

• Lamentations 5:4

  We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

• Ezekiel 7:19

  They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls, neither fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

• Ezekiel 28:4

  by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

• Amos 8:5

  Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

• Micah 3:11

  Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

• Zechariah 11:12

  I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

• Matthew 2:11

  They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

• Matthew 10:9

  Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.

• Matthew 22:20

  He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

• Matthew 22:21

  They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

• Matthew 25:18

  But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

• Matthew 25:27

  You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

• Matthew 27:5

  He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

• Matthew 28:12

  When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,

• Matthew 28:15

  So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.

• Mark 6:8

  He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,

• Mark 12:41

  Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

• Mark 14:11

  They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

• Luke 9:3

  He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey — neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.

• Luke 19:15

  “When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

• Luke 19:23

  Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’

• Luke 22:5

  They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

• Acts 3:6

  But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

• Acts 7:16

  and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

• Acts 8:20

  But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

• Acts 20:33

  I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.

• 1 Timothy 6:10

  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

• 1 Peter 1:18

  knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,