28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.
And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!
It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man of wealth to come into the kingdom of God.
It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.
And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.
For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.
They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.
To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
