13 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!"

Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

"There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.

He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

In one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!' And every shipmaster and all passengers and sailors, and all who make their living by the sea, stood far off,

and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls and its beauty is destroyed. So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.