The bible has much to say about investments, wealth, possessions and money. According to Crown Financial Ministries, there are over 2,000 passages in the bible concerning these topics. Listed below are a few that have to do with successful investing*: 1. Establish written financial goals Proverbs 20:5, 21:5 2. Seek wise investment counsel Proverbs 19:20 3. Think long-term Luke 14:28 4. Diversify your portfolio Ecclesiastes 11:2 5. Don’t make haste Proverbs 28:20-22 6. Avoid risky investments if you can’t afford a loss Ecclesiastes 5:13, 5:15 7. Avoid leverage Proverbs 22:7 8. Monitor your anxiety Psalm 131:1 9. Establish limits on the amount you invest Proverbs 15:16, 30:8 10. Share and discuss decisions with your spouse Genesis 2:24 Establish written Financial goals A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out.  (Proverbs 20:5) The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty. (Proverbs 21:5) Seek wise investment counsel Listen to counsel and accept discipline, That you may be wise the rest of your days. (Proverbs 19:20) Think long-term For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? (Luke 14:28) Diversify your portfolio Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth. (Ecclesiastes 11:2) Don’t make haste A faithful man will abound with blessings, But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.  A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth, And does not know that want will come upon him.  (Proverbs 28:20, 22) Avoid risky investments if you can’t afford a loss There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt. When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him. As he had come naked from his mother's womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand. (Ecclesiastes 5:13-15) Avoid leverage The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower becomes the lender's slave. (Proverbs 22:7) Monitor your anxiety O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me. (Psalm 131:1) Establish limits on the amount you invest Better is a little with the fear of the LORD Than great treasure and turmoil with it. (Proverbs 15:16) Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion (Proverbs 30:8) Share and discuss decisions with your spouse For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24) *All scripture quotations on this page were taken from the New American Standard Bible. The initial list, The Ten Principles of Investing, reproduced here with minor revisions, was provided by Kingdom Advisors.