- The borrower is a slave to the lender. When you are in debt to another, you enter into a slave/master relationship with your creditor - Proverbs 22:7
- Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow - Proverbs 13:11
- Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth - Proverbs 10:4
- Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor - Proverbs 12:24
- All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty - Proverbs 14:23
- A wise man thinks ahead; a fool doesn’t, and even brags about it! - Proverbs 13:16
- The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down - Proverbs 21:20
- Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise: Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; - Proverbs 30:24-25
- Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid - Proverbs 12: 1
- Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it, but whoever respects a command is rewarded - Proverbs 13:13
- The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice - Proverbs 12:15
- A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel - Proverbs 1:5
- A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes - Proverbs 13:1
- Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored - Proverbs 13:18
- Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice - Proverbs 13:10
- The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning - Proverbs 14:6
- He who listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise - Proverbs 15:31
- Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs - Proverbs 19:11
- Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end, you will be wise - Proverbs 19:20
- Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise - Proverbs 20:1
- A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control - Proverbs 29:11
- I thought, “Wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness." - Ecclesiastes 2:13
- Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction - 1 Timothy 6:9
- There is another problem I have seen everywhere – savings are put into risky investments that turn sour, and soon there is nothing left to pass on to one’s son. The man who speculates is soon back to where he began – with nothing. This, as I have said, is a serious problem, for all his hard work has been for nothing; he has been working for the wind. It is all swept away (Ecclesiastes 5:13-16, TLB)
- Cry out for insight, and ask for understanding. Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures - Proverbs 2:3-4
- Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise! Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter - Proverbs 6:6-8
- If a ruler pays attention to liars, all his advisers will be wicked - Proverbs 29:12
- Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it - Proverbs 22:6
- The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it - Psalm 24:1
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." - Hebrews 13:5
- "For the LORD your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you - Deuteronomy 15:6
- Wisdom and money can get you almost anything, but only wisdom can save your life - Ecclesiastes 7:12
- A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest - then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber - Proverbs 6:10, 11
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