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
- 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
- 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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