Bible Verses About Frugality: General references

So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent.

He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.

And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.

Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?

For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.