Quotes about Stewardship
You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
- Leviticus 25:5
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
- Leviticus 25:23
Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
- Leviticus 25:24
Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”
- Numbers 35:34
He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
- Deuteronomy 17:17
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
- Deuteronomy 17:20
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 25:15
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
- 1 Samuel 8:16
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
- 2 Samuel 19:29
Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
- 1 Kings 4:6
Ben-deker in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon-beth-hanan;
- 1 Kings 4:9
Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);
- 1 Kings 4:10