Often Misquoted As Scripture: 2) "Money is the root of all evil."

2) "Money is the root of all evil."

It says nowhere in the Bible that money is wrong or bad.

In fact, God WANTS us to PROSPER!

---We are to have our hearts and minds on heavenly things.

Jesus and Paul encourage us to have our minds set on heaven:

 Col_3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

We are to seek first the kingdom of God (Matt 6:33), and to store up treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy (Matt 6:19.20). Yet there are many examples of men and women who did seek God first, and “all this was added to them.”  Abraham was a rich man, because God blessed him. King Solomon was also exceedingly rich, and blessed by God. There were many wealthy women who supported Jesus' ministry, and Paul's also. Psalm 1 talks about the righteous man who lives by God's laws will be fruitful and prosperous. Proverbs is full of wisdom on how to handle money, lawsuits, lending and borrowing, and more. Jesus spoke parables about the Kingdom of God, equating it to a master who leaves his estate in the hands of his servants, telling them to invest his assets in his absence. God tells us that tithing (giving ten percent of our income) into the “storehouse” will open the windows of heaven on us, causing our cups to run over with blessing, more than we can contain.  Malachi 3:10,  "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need."

It is the LOVE of money, the obsession with making money, and the hoarding of money and goods for the sake of having them, for ourselves – these things are harmful, and are the roots of all kinds of evil.

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1 Timothy 6:10)

Luk 12:15 And he said to them, "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Luk 12:16 And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully,

Luk 12:17 and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

Luk 12:18 And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.'

Luk 12:20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

Luk 12:21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."