28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

Then said Jesus to his disciples, Verily I say to you, that a rich man shall with difficulty enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And Jesus looked around, and saith to his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly will they that have riches enter into 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 into the kingdom of God.

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

There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

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

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine of them.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every ship-master, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

But they that will be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;