28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
Most Relevant Verses
Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
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."
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
