Dictionary of Bible Themes » 5000 Humanity » 5760 Human attitudes and behaviour » 5967 thrift
Saving by the careful use of resources. In general this is encouraged in Scripture, though the dangers of meanness, materialism and anxiety are recognised.
Encouragements to thrift
To provide for the future
Proverbs 21:20 See also Proverbs 6:6-8; Proverbs 10:5; Proverbs 12:27; Proverbs 27:23-27; Proverbs 30:25
To provide for children
Psalm 17:14; Proverbs 13:22; 2 Corinthians 12:14
To provide for others
Deuteronomy 14:28-29; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Ephesians 4:28
Examples of thrift
Noah
Genesis 6:21
Joseph
Genesis 41:48 See also Genesis 41:28-36,53
Solomon
1 Kings 9:17-19 pp 2 Chronicles 8:4-6
Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 17:12
Hezekiah
2 Chronicles 32:27-29
The good wife
Proverbs 31:13-16
Jesus Christ
John 6:12-13
The dangers of thrift
Meanness
John 12:4-6 pp Matthew 26:8-9 pp Mark 14:4-5 See also Proverbs 3:27-28; Proverbs 11:24,26; Proverbs 23:6-8; Proverbs 28:22; Ecclesiastes 5:13; 2 Corinthians 9:6
Materialism
Luke 12:15 See also Ecclesiastes 4:8; Micah 6:14; Luke 12:16-21
Anxiety
Luke 12:22-31 pp Matthew 6:25-34
Lack of thrift
Luke 15:13 See also Proverbs 21:17,20; Proverbs 23:20-21; Proverbs 29:3; Luke 16:1
Spiritual thrift
Matthew 6:19-21; Ephesians 5:15-16 See also Proverbs 10:14; 1 Timothy 6:19
The wicked store up judgment
Romans 2:5-6 See also Romans 2:7-10; Revelation 18:6-7
See also
5475 property 5556 stewardship 5680 family 5802 care 5907 miserliness 5922 prudence 5979 waste 8434 giving 8778 materialism 8808 riches 8849 worry 9130 future, the
