28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

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

When Jesus noticed this, he said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter 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 the kingdom of God."

In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

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

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

"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 money.

What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God."

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!" And every ship's captain, and all who sail along the coast -- seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.

But the rich person's pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow. For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

A benevolent person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away."

He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

Fools are placed in many positions of authority, while wealthy men sit in lowly positions.

A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.

They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.

to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,