Bible Verses About Parsimony

Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? --an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running--each to his house,

Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.

And I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.'

And having seen it , his disciples were much displeased, saying, `To what purpose is this waste?

for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'

Therefore saith one of his disciples--Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up--

`Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'