28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I say to you that with difficulty a rich person will enter into the kingdom of heaven!
And Jesus looked around [and] said to his disciples, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"
And Jesus took notice of him [and] said, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!
It is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than [for] a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God."
For it is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than [for] a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.
"Now a certain man was rich, and dressed [in] purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.
He has filled those who are hungry with good [things], and those who are rich he has sent away empty-handed.
"No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.
And what will you do at [the] day of punishment, and at calamity? It comes from afar! To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,
Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
He goes to bed [with] wealth, but {he will do so no more}; he opens his eyes, and {it is gone}.
Then their wealth shall be as plunder, and their homes as desolation. And they shall build their houses and not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and not drink their wine."
because in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!" And every shipmaster and {every seafarer} and sailors and all those who labor on the sea stood {far off}
Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.
He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.
but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass. For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits will wither away.
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.
He who is good will leave an inheritance to {his grandchildren}, and stored up for the righteous [is] the wealth of a sinner.
For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation].
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
Returning [the] products of [his] toil, he will not swallow; according to the profit of his trade, {he will not enjoy},
The fool is set in many high places, but the rich sit in lowly places.
Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.
And they will plunder your wealth, and they will loot your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and the houses of your delight they will break down, and your stones and your timbers and your earthen dirt they will cast into the midst of [the] water.
