Bible verses about Riches
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)

The true riches Ephesians 3:8; I Corinthians 1:30; Colossians 2:3; I Peter 2:7 God gives I Samuel 2:7; Ecclesiastes 5:19 To God belongs this world's riches Haggai 2:8 God gives power to obtain Deuteronomy 8:18 The blessing of the Lord brings Proverbs 10:22 Give worldly power Proverbs 22:7 DESCRIBED AS Temporary Proverbs 27:24 Uncertain I Timothy 6:17 Unsatisfying Ecclesiastes 4:8; 5:10 Corruptible James 5:2; I Peter 1:18 Fleeting Proverbs 23:5; Revelation 18:16,17 Deceitful Matthew 13:22 Liable to be stolen Matthew 6:19 Perishable Jeremiah 48:36 Thick clay Habakkuk 2:6 Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel Mark 10:23-25 Deceitfulness of, chokes the word Matthew 13:22 The love of, the root of all evil I Timothy 6:10 OFTEN LEAD TO Pride Ezekiel 28:5; Hosea 12:8 Forgetting God Deuteronomy 8:13,14 Denying God Proverbs 30:8,9 Forsaking God Deuteronomy 32:15 Rebelling against God Nehemiah 9:25,26 Rejecting Christ Matthew 19:22; 10:22 Self-sufficiency Proverbs 28:11 Anxiety Ecclesiastes 5:12 An overbearing spirit Proverbs 18:23 Violence Micah 6:12 Oppression James 2:6 Fraud James 5:4 Sensual indulgence Luke 16:19; James 5:5 Life consists not in abundance of Luke 12:15 Be not over-anxious for Proverbs 30:8 Labour not for Proverbs 23:4 THEY WHO COVET Fall into temptation and a snare I Timothy 6:9 Fall into hurtful lusts I Timothy 6:9 Err from the faith I Timothy 6:10 Use unlawful means to acquire Proverbs 28:20 Bring trouble on themselves I Timothy 6:10 Bring trouble on their families Proverbs 15:27 Profit not in the day of wrath Proverbs 11:4 Cannot secure prosperity James 1:11 Cannot redeem the soul Psalms 49:6-9; I Peter 1:18 Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath Zephaniah 1:18; Revelation 6:15-17 THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD Ascribe them to God I Chronicles 29:12 Not trust in them Job 31:24; I Timothy 6:17 Not set the heart on them Psalms 62:10 Not boast of obtaining them Deuteronomy 8:17 Not glory in them Jeremiah 9:23 Not hoard them up Matthew 6:19 Devote them to God's service I Chronicles 29:3; Mark 12:42-44 Give of them to the poor Matthew 19:21; I John 3:17 Use them in promoting the salvation of others Luke 16:9 Be liberal in all things I Timothy 6:18 Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give I Chronicles 29:14 Not to be high-minded I Timothy 6:17 When converted, rejoice in being humbled James 1:9,10 Heavenly treasures superior to Matthew 6:19,20 Of the wicked laid up for the just Proverbs 13:22 THE WICKED Often increase in Psalms 73:12 Often spend their day in Job 21:13 Swallow down Job 20:15 Trust in the abundance of Psalms 52:7 Heap up Job 27:16; Psalms 39:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26 Keep, to their hurt Ecclesiastes 5:13 Boast themselves in Psalms 49:6; 52:7 Profit not by Proverbs 11:4; 13:7; Ecclesiastes 5:11 Have trouble with Proverbs 15:6; I Timothy 6:9,10 Must leave, to others Psalms 49:10 Vanity of heaping up Psalms 39:6; Ecclesiastes 5:10,11 Guilt of trusting in Job 31:24,28; Ezekiel 28:4,5,8 Guilt of rejoicing in Job 31:25,28 DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO Get, by vanity Proverbs 13:11; 21:6 Get, unlawfully Jeremiah 17:11 Increase, by oppression Proverbs 22:16; Habakkuk 2:6-8; Micah 2:2,3 Hoard up Ecclesiastes 5:13,14; James 5:3 Trust in Proverbs 11:28 Receive their consolation Luke 6:24 Abuse James 5:1,5 Spend, upon their appetite Job 20:15-17 Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated Luke 12:16-21 Danger of misusing-Illustrated Luke 16:19-25 Examples of saints possessing Abram Genesis 13:2 Lot Genesis 13:5,6 Isaac Genesis 26:13,14 Jacob Genesis 32:5,10 Joseph Genesis 45:8,13 Boaz Ruth 2:1 Barzillai II Samuel 19:32 Shunammite II Kings 4:8 David I Chronicles 29:28 Jehoshaphat II Chronicles 17:5 Hezekiah II Chronicles 32:27-29 Job Job 1:3 Joseph of Arimathea Matthew 27:57 Zacchaeus Luke 19:2 Dorcas Acts 9:36 Examples of those truly rich Matthew 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Luke 10:42; John 1:45; Philippians 3:8; James 2:5; I Peter 2:7; Revelation 3:18 Examples of wicked men possessing Laban Genesis 30:30 Esau Genesis 36:7 Nabal I Samuel 25:2 Haman Esther 5:11 Ammonites Jeremiah 49:4 People of Tyre Ezekiel 28:5 Young man Matthew 19:22

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