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19 Bible Verses About Entrepreneurship and Business

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Summary

  • Proverbs 31:16-18 describes a woman who buys a field, plants a vineyard from her earnings and sees that her trading is profitable.
  • James 4:13-15 does not forbid traders to plan a year of business; it tells them to say “If it is the Lord’s will.”
  • Colossians 3:23 was written to slaves, and Colossians 4:1 tells their masters to provide what is right and fair.
  • Deuteronomy 8:18 answers the thought “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth” by saying the ability to produce wealth comes from God.
  • James 5:4 says the wages withheld from field workers cry out against the employer who kept them.

The Bible speaks to entrepreneurship through the things a business is made of: plans, work, trade, wages and wealth. Proverbs has sayings on planning (Proverbs 16:3, 21:5), advice (Proverbs 15:22) and honest weights (Proverbs 11:1). Proverbs 31:16-18 describes a woman who buys a field and sees that her trading is profitable, Jesus tells of servants who put their master’s money to work (Matthew 25:16), and James 4:13-15 addresses merchants planning a year of business in another city. Deuteronomy 8:18 tells…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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