Bible Verses About Parsimony

You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house.

Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all that the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon beasts, and upon all the labour of the hands.

And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?

For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor.

Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?