13 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

So Jesus said to his disciples. "In solemn truth I tell you that a rich man will find it difficult to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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

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

"My sons, how hard it is for those who trust in money to enter the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

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

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

"The hungry he has filled with good things, But the rich he has sent empty away.

"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

"So is he that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich toward God."

For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

In one hour so great riches is made desolate!" And every shipmaster and every one who sails to any port, And sailors, and all seafaring folk,

but a rich brother, in his humiliation; because like the flower of the grass the rich man will pass away. For as the sun comes up with a burning heat, it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes; so also shall the rich man fade away amid his pursuits.

Those who desire to be rich fall into the snares of temptation and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.