14 Bible Verses about Riches, Can Lead To

By your great skill in trading
you have increased your wealth,
but your heart has become proud
because of your wealth.”

But Ephraim says:
“How rich I have become;
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me
that I can be punished for!”

and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases, be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.
Give me neither poverty nor wealth;
feed me with the food I need.
Otherwise, I might have too much
and deny You, saying, “Who is the Lord?”
or I might have nothing and steal,
profaning the name of my God.

Then Jeshurun became fat and rebelled—
you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

They captured fortified cities and fertile land
and took possession of well-supplied houses,
cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards,
olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance.
They ate, were filled,
became prosperous, and delighted in Your great goodness. But they were disobedient and rebelled against You.
They flung Your law behind their backs
and killed Your prophets
who warned them
in order to turn them back to You.
They committed terrible blasphemies.

When the young man heard that command, he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.

But he was stunned at this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes,
but a poor man who has discernment sees through him.

The poor man pleads,
but the rich one answers roughly.

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence,
and its residents speak lies;
the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.