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In the biblical context, the concept of "spending" encompasses the use of resources, time, and energy, often reflecting one's priorities and values. The Bible provides guidance on how believers should manage their resources, emphasizing stewardship, generosity, and the avoidance of wastefulness.

Stewardship and Resource Management

The Bible underscores the importance of wise stewardship. In the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30), Jesus illustrates the principle of managing resources responsibly. The servants who wisely invest their master's money are rewarded, while the one who fails to do so is reprimanded. This parable highlights the expectation that believers should spend their resources in ways that honor God and further His kingdom.

Generosity and Giving

Scripture frequently encourages believers to spend their resources generously. In 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 , Paul writes, "Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver." This passage emphasizes the importance of giving willingly and joyfully, reflecting a heart aligned with God's purposes.

Avoidance of Wastefulness

The Bible warns against wasteful spending and the pursuit of material wealth. Proverbs 21:20 states, "Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them." This proverb contrasts the wise, who manage their resources prudently, with the foolish, who squander them. Believers are encouraged to be mindful of their spending, ensuring it aligns with godly wisdom.

Time and Energy

Beyond financial resources, the Bible also addresses the spending of time and energy. Ephesians 5:15-16 advises, "Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." This passage calls believers to use their time wisely, making the most of every opportunity to live righteously and serve God's purposes.

Contentment and Trust in God

The Bible teaches contentment as a counterbalance to excessive spending. In Philippians 4:11-12 , Paul shares, "I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances. I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need." This contentment stems from trust in God's provision, reducing the compulsion to spend excessively in pursuit of satisfaction.

Conclusion

The biblical perspective on spending encourages believers to manage their resources with wisdom, generosity, and contentment. By aligning their spending habits with biblical principles, Christians can honor God and contribute to His work on earth.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

2. (v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

3. (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

4. (v. t.) To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.

5. (v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

6. (v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

7. (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

8. (v. i.) To be diffused; to spread.

9. (v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.

Greek

1159. dapanao -- to spend, spend freely
... to spend, spend freely. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: dapanao Phonetic Spelling:
(dap-an-ah'-o) Short Definition: I spend, bear expense, waste Definition ...
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5551. chronotribeo -- to spend time
... to spend time. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chronotribeo Phonetic Spelling:
(khron-ot-rib-eh'-o) Short Definition: I waste time, spend time Definition ...
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4325. prosdapanao -- to spend besides
... to spend besides. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: prosdapanao Phonetic Spelling:
(pros-dap-an-ah'-o) Short Definition: I spend in addition Definition: I ...
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4321. prosanalisko -- to spend besides.
... 4320, 4321. prosanalisko. 4322 . to spend besides. Part ... addition. Word Origin
from pros and analisko Definition to spend besides. spend. ...
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5549. chronizo -- to spend or take time, delay
... to spend or take time, delay. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chronizo Phonetic
Spelling: (khron-id'-zo) Short Definition: I delay, tarry Definition: I ...
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1304. diatribo -- to rub hard, rub away, to spend time
... to rub hard, rub away, to spend time. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diatribo
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-at-ree'-bo) Short Definition: I tarry, continue ...
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1550. ekdapanao -- to expend wholly, ie to exhaust
... wholly, ie to exhaust. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekdapanao Phonetic
Spelling: (ek-dap-an-ah'-o) Short Definition: I spend completely Definition: I ...
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2119. eukaireo -- to have opportunity
... Word Origin from eukairos Definition to have opportunity NASB Word Usage have time
(1), opportunity (1), spend...time (1). have leisure, spend time. ...
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4160. poieo -- to make, do
... 1), produce (3), produced (1), produces (2), producing (1), provide (1), put (1),
satisfy* (1), setting (1), show (2), showed (1), shown (1), spend (1), spent ...
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1236. diago -- to carry over, to pass
... to carry over, to pass. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diago Phonetic Spelling:
(dee-ag'-o) Short Definition: I spend time, pass time, live Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7019b. qits -- spend the summer
... 7019a, 7019b. qits. 7019c . spend the summer. Transliteration: qits Short
Definition: summer. Word Origin from an unused word Definition ...
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1086. balah -- to become old, wear out
... root Definition to become old, wear out NASB Word Usage become old (1), consume
(1), decaying (1), spend (1), waste (1), waste away (1), wasted away (1), wear ...
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8254. shaqal -- to weigh
... root Definition to weigh NASB Word Usage actually weighed (1), pay (4), receive
(1), spend (1), weigh (3), weighed (10), weighs (1). pay, receive, spend, weigh. ...
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6. abad -- to perish
... break, destroy uction, not escape, fail, lose, cause to, make perish, spend,.
A primitive root; properly, to wander away, ie Lose ...
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3615. kalah -- to be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished ...
... 1), languishes (1), longed (1), make an end (1), over (1), perish (1), perishing
(1), plotted (1), put an end (2), ravage (1), settled (1), spend (3), spent (5 ...
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1104. bala -- to swallow down, swallow up, engulf
... cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down up. A
primitive root; to make away with (specifically by swallowing ...
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7286. radad -- to beat out, beat down, subdue
... spend, spread, subdue. A primitive root; to tread in pieces, ie (figuratively) to
conquer, or (specifically) to overlay -- spend, spread, subdue. 7285b, 7286 ...
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3885a. lun -- to lodge, pass the night, abide
... night (2), lodge (9), lodged (6), lodges (3), night (2), pass (1), remain (1), remain
with you all night (1), remain overnight (2), sleep (1), spend (2), spend ...
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6213. asah -- do, make
... offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure,
provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely ...
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6972. quts -- summer
... Word Origin see qits. summer A primitive root; to clip off; used only as denominative
from qayits; to spend the harvest season -- summer. see HEBREW qayits. ...
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Library

Go, Labour On! Spend and be Spent
... V. THE CHURCH Brotherhood and Service 490. Go, labour on! spend and be spent. LM ...
Go, labour on! spend and be spent! Thy joy to do the Father's will; ...
/.../brotherhood and service 490 go.htm

That Maxim Also which Your Friend Used is of Very Great and Divine ...
... THE FOURTH CENTURY 11 That maxim also which your friend used is of very great and
Divine concernment: I will first spend a great deal of time in seeking ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/11 that maxim also which.htm

Even as Things Are, if Your Thought is to Spend this Period of ...
... Chapter XXIX. Even as things are, if your thought is to spend this period
of existence in? Even as things are, if your thought ...
/.../tertullian/the shows or de spectaculis/chapter xxix even as things.htm

I Walk'd the Other Day, (To Spend My Hour),
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CXXI I walk'd the other day, (to spend my
hour),. Into a field, Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield. ...
/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/cxxi i walkd the other.htm

Three Tests of Love
... Many persons spend willingly and even lavishly for self who give sparingly and
reluctantly to God. They spend more for their pleasures than they give. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk fifty-three three tests of.htm

Good-Friday.
... How do our readers mean to spend the day? We have no right to bind any man's
conscience, and seek to have others do as we do, except ...
//christianbookshelf.org/champness/broken bread/xxii good-friday.htm

Infidelity
... "I walk about in the day time; I lie down at night, and it comes upon me continually:
'Eternity, and where shall I spend it?' Tell me, is there any hope for me ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/moody/moodys anecdotes and illustrations/infidelity.htm

The First Chapter: the Great Reverence with which we Should ...
... trumpeting and jubilation to the place prepared for it; and I, unhappy and poorest
of men, how shall I lead You into my house, I who scarcely can spend a half ...
/.../kempis/the imitation of christ/the first chapter the great.htm

Ignorance of the Seed Makes no Difference.
... Do you spend your time at the saloon or the club, until you have become almost
a stranger to them? ... Tell me, how do you spend your spare time? ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/moody/sowing and reaping/chapter vi ignorance of the.htm

Chapter xix
... And he said: Behold now, sirs, turn aside, I pray, unto the house of your servant,
and spend the night, and wash your feet, and ye shall arise early and be on ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xix.htm

Thesaurus

Spend (54 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of;
to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. 2. (vt) To ...
/s/spend.htm - 23k

Gib'e-ah (45 Occurrences)
... Judges 19:13 And he said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these
places, and spend the night at Gib'e-ah or at Ramah." (DBY RSV). ...
/g/gib'e-ah.htm - 19k

Expend (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To spend, consume, apply, or employ; as to expend energy; to use up or
distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money ...
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Square (94 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV NIV). Judges 19:15 and they turned aside there, to go in and
spend the night at Gib'e-ah. And he went in and sat down ...
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Loaf (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. 3. (vt) To
spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away. Int. ...
/l/loaf.htm - 11k

Waste (668 Occurrences)
... 5. (v.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant
loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. ...
/w/waste.htm - 37k

Idle (33 Occurrences)
... 5. (superl.) Light-headed; foolish. 6. (vi) To lose or spend time in inaction,
or without being employed in business. 7. (vt) To ...
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Pleasures (18 Occurrences)
... (WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS). James 4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. ...
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Consume (136 Occurrences)
... Nehemiah 9:31); analisko, "to use up," occurs in Luke 9:54 Galatians 5:15 2
Thessalonians 2:8 (the King James Version); dapanao, "to spend," is translated ...
/c/consume.htm - 40k

Prosperity (66 Occurrences)
... Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity. ... Job 36:11 If they listen and serve
him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. ...
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Resources

Why is it important to spend time alone with God? | GotQuestions.org

If the penalty for our sins is eternity in hell, how did Jesus' death pay our penalty if He did not spend eternity in hell? | GotQuestions.org

Should Christians be in cliques? | GotQuestions.org

Spend: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance

Spend (54 Occurrences)

Mark 6:37
But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
(See NAS NIV)

Luke 10:35
On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him,'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Luke 21:37
Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.
(WEB WEY NAS NIV)

Acts 17:21
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)
(YLT)

Acts 20:16
For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 28:14
where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.
(See NIV)

1 Corinthians 16:6
and I shall make some stay with you perhaps, or even spend the winter with you, in order that you may help me forward, whichever way I travel.
(WEY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 16:7
For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
(See RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Titus 3:12
When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.
(See NAS RSV)

James 4:3
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
(WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

James 4:13
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Peter 1:17
And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,
(WEY)

1 Peter 4:2
that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.
(WEY)

Genesis 19:2
and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 24:23
and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
(See NIV)

Genesis 24:25
She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
(See NIV)

Numbers 22:8
And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you back word, as the LORD may speak unto me'; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
(See NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 14:26
and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
(See NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 32:23
"I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)

Judges 16:1
Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
(See NIV)

Judges 19:6
So the two men sat and ate and drank together; and the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry."
(DBY NAS RSV)

Judges 19:10
But the man would not spend the night; he rose up and departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled asses, and his concubine was with him.
(DBY NAS RSV)

Judges 19:11
When they were near Jebus, the day was far spent, and the servant said to his master, "Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jeb'usites, and spend the night in it."
(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 19:13
And he said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night at Gib'e-ah or at Ramah."
(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 19:15
and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gib'e-ah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city; for no man took them into his house to spend the night.
(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 19:20
And the old man said, "Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants; only, do not spend the night in the square."
(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 20:4
And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, "I came to Gib'e-ah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying,'Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"
(See NAS NIV)

Nehemiah 4:22
Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.
(See NAS)

Nehemiah 13:21
Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why do you stay around the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.
(See NAS NIV)

Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
(See NAS NIV)

Job 31:32
(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
(See NIV)

Job 36:11
If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NIV)

Job 39:9
"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
(See NAS RSV)

Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
(KJV DBY WBS)

Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Song of Songs 7:11
Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.
(See NAS NIV)

Isaiah 18:6
They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 21:13
The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!
(See NAS)

Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
(See NIV)

Isaiah 65:4
Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 20:18
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
(See RSV)

Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
(See JPS RSV)

Ezekiel 6:12
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath upon them.
(See JPS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 7:8
Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations.
(See JPS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 13:15
Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar ; and I will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
(See JPS NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
(See JPS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
(See JPS RSV NIV)

Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
(See NAS NIV)

Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Spend

Related Terms

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