The Bible teaches that property is a gift from God, meant to be used wisely and shared generously. True stewardship involves recognizing that everything we have is entrusted to us for a purpose. By managing our resources with gratitude and responsibility, we honor God and serve others. In doing so, we find fulfillment and create a legacy of faith.
Below is the full list of bible verses on property (King James Version – KJV). The list is ranked in order of popularity and we hope you find the inspiration you need.
Most Popular Bible Verses About Property
Leviticus 25:23
“23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.”
Proverbs 19:14
“14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 19:14
“14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.”
Exodus 22:2-3
“2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.”
Related Themes: Trespassing Self-Defense Theft Self-Defense Killing
Psalm 24:1
“1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
1 Timothy 5:8
“8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
Related Themes: Money Finances Respecting Your Parents Children Laziness
Exodus 20:17
“17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
Related Themes: Lust Coveting Envy And Jealousy Adultery Greed
Deuteronomy 27:17
“17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
Proverbs 23:10
“10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:”
Ephesians 4:28
“28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
Leviticus 19:11
“11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.”
Related Themes: Business Stealing Telling The Truth Lying Gossip
Numbers 33:53-54
“53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.”
Deuteronomy 5:21
“21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
Proverbs 22:28
“28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.”
1 Corinthians 10:26
“26 For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.”
Related Themes: Earth
Job 24:2
“2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.”
Jeremiah 32:7
“7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.”
Proverbs 22:22
“22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:”
Related Themes: Homelessness Serving The Poor
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
“9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Related Themes: Lust Abomination Lust Abomination
Acts 2:45
“45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.”
Related Themes: Generosity
Leviticus 25:29-30
“29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.”
Zechariah 5:3-4
“3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.”
Related Themes: Earth
Leviticus 25:31
“31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.”
Deuteronomy 22:1-3
“1 Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.”
Proverbs 10:4
“4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.”
Leviticus 19:13
“13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.”
Related Themes: Business Money Stealing Trespassing Finances
Psalm 2:8
“8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”
Psalm 115:16
“16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.”
Related Themes: Earth
