Money Bible Verses: On Budgeting

May 17, 2010 by Victorino
Filed under Money Bible Verses

In the first two articles of the series Money Bible Verses, we have shared what the Holy Scriptures said about investing and debts. This time, we will move to the Bible passages that discuss budgeting. Budgeting can be relative to all of us, whether we are rich or poor, business owners or employees, and young or old. It involves plotting our reasonably estimated income, expenses and savings for a certain period or series of periods in the near future. The purpose of budgeting is to provide us a forecast of revenue and expenditures which will serve us as our guide for an effective an efficient flow of our financial transactions. It also gives us the ability to control our financial run by comparing our actual financial performance against our forecast.

Many people perceive that budgeting just give us financial restrictions. They thought that these financial limits are things that need to be broken to achieve financial freedom. However, as we will discover the Words of God, we will realize that financial limitations are God’s ways to keep us in the right financial position. As the Bible teaches as self-control and discipline, it also shapes us to persons who are not slaves of debt but persons who are free. When it comes to budgeting, the following verses are written in the Bible:

Proverbs 3:9-10
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first fruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise; who, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 22:3
A prudent one foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.

Proverbs 21:17
Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

Proverbs 24:3-4
Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms shall be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Proverbs 25:28
He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.

Proverbs 27:12
A sensible man watches for problems ahead and prepares to meet them. The simpleton never looks, and suffers the consequences.

Proverbs 27:23
Know well the face of your flocks; set your heart on your herds.

Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.

Luke 14:28-30
For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he may have enough to finish it; lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

The passages listed above may not represent all of the verses in the Bible that discuss budgeting. If you have other Bible verses in mind that are related to budgeting, feel free to share them by making a comment below.