22 Bible Verses about Church Finances (KJV)

Here are 22 Bible verses about church finances, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Luke 14:28 KJV

²⁸For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

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Luke 6:38 KJV

³⁸Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

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Luke 16:11 KJV

¹¹If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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Matthew 6:33 KJV

³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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Matthew 6:1-4 KJV

¹Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. ²Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. ³But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand …

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Malachi 3:10 KJV

¹⁰Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

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Proverbs 22:7 KJV

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

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2 Corinthians 9:7 KJV

⁷Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

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Matthew 6:24 KJV

²⁴No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Haggai 2:8 KJV

⁸The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

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1 Timothy 6:6 KJV

⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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Proverbs 21:20 KJV

²⁰There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

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1 Corinthians 12:12-26 KJV

¹²For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. ¹³For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵If the foot shall …

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Proverbs 13:22 KJV

²²A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

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Psalm 24:1 KJV

¹The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

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1 Timothy 6:6-7 KJV

⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

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2 Corinthians 8:1-24 KJV

¹Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; ²How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. ³For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; ⁴Praying us with much intreaty …

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Acts 4:35 KJV

³⁵And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

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Genesis 28:20-22 KJV

²⁰And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, ²¹So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: ²²And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

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1 Timothy 5:17-18 KJV

¹⁷Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. ¹⁸For the scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

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Matthew 8:20 KJV

²⁰And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

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Genesis 14:20 KJV

²⁰And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

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