Bible vs Money

Bible & Money · Concordance · Book 39 of 52

Ephesians

Updated 2026-07-31 · Sources: 2 · 4 passages · 2 with notes

Printed in full from the World English Bible (public domain). Every reference resolves against a local copy of that text before this page is built. The notes are editorial: they say what the passage contributes in its own context, and where a verse is routinely turned against that context, the warning sits with it. Read how we read Scripture on money first.

Ephesians 4:28 (WEB)

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
Ephesians 4:28 · World English Bible, public domain

Note the full arc: stop stealing -> work -> so you can GIVE. Work has a generosity purpose.

Themes: Work, diligence, and vocation · Honesty and integrity in business · Generosity, tithing, and firstfruits · Reading band K3

Ephesians 5:3-5 (WEB)

3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; 4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. 5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Ephesians 5:3-5 · World English Bible, public domain

Themes: Contentment and simplicity · Greed, the love of money, and materialism · Reading band K4

Ephesians 5:22-33 (WEB)

22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. 24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; 26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect. 28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; 30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. 31“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” 32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:22-33 · World English Bible, public domain

Themes: Relationships and money · Inheritance, legacy, and estate · Reading band K4

Ephesians 6:5-9 (WEB)

5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; 6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; 7with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; 8knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. 9You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
Ephesians 6:5-9 · World English Bible, public domain

Paul addresses slaves (verses 5-8) and masters (verse 9), and the duties run both ways: masters are to give up threatening, because both have the same Master in heaven. Applying it to employers and employees is a common application, not the text's own setting.

Themes: Serving others and creating value · Honesty and integrity in business · Poverty, justice, and care for the poor · Work, diligence, and vocation · Reading band K4

Sources

  1. World English Bible (WEB), public domain, USFX source text (seven1m/open-bibles)
  2. BibleGateway: read any passage in its wider context