18 Bible Verses About Prosperity, Read With Their Settings Attached

The Bible teaches that God gives the ability to produce wealth and promises to meet his people’s needs, but it does not promise every believer riches. Several verses often quoted as promises of wealth say something narrower in their setting. Jeremiah 29:11 was sent to exiles told to settle in Babylon for seventy years, Malachi 3:10 concerns the tithe owed to the temple storehouse, and 3 John 1:2 is the customary greeting at the start of a letter. The eighteen…