Ezekiel 28:5
Because of your great skill in trading, you have made yourself very wealthy. You have become arrogant because of your wealth.'
Psalm 62:10
Do not count on extortion to make you rich. Do not hope to gain anything through robbery. When riches increase, do not depend on them.
Psalm 52:7
Here is the man who did not make God his strength (refuge) (stronghold). He trusted in the abundance of his riches. He strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'In your arrogance you say, 'I am a god (strong deity). I sit on God's throne in the sea.' But you are only human and not a god, although you think you are a god. (2 Thes 2:4)
Hosea 13:6
When I fed you, you were full. When you were full, you became arrogant. That is why you forgot me.
Job 31:24-25
If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence,
Hosea 12:7-8
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
Deuteronomy 6:11-12
The houses will be full of good things that you did not put in them. There will be wells that you did not dig. There will be vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Jehovah will bring you into this land and you will have all you want to eat.
Deuteronomy 8:13-14
Your herds and flocks, silver and gold, and all that you have will increase.
2 Chronicles 25:19
You say you defeated Edom. Now you have become arrogant enough to look for more fame. Stay home! Why must you invite disaster and your own defeat and take Judah with you?'
2 Chronicles 32:23-25
Many people still went to Jerusalem to bring gifts to Jehovah and expensive presents to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that point in history he was considered important by all the nations.
Proverbs 11:28
He who trusts in his riches will fall. The righteous will flourish as a leaf on a branch.
Proverbs 26:12
See a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 30:9
If I am full I could deny you and say, Who is Jehovah? Or if I am poor and steal, I could take God's name in vain.
Isaiah 5:21
You are doomed! You think you are wise. You think you are so very clever.
Isaiah 10:8-14
He boasts: 'Every one of my commanders is a king!
Isaiah 23:3
On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor. The harvest of the Nile River was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.
Isaiah 23:8
Who planned such a thing against Tyre, the city that produced kings? Its merchants are princes. Its traders are among the honored people of the world.
Ezekiel 16:49
This was the guilt of your sister Sodom. She and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 27:12-36
People from Tarshish traded with you because you were so very rich. They exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your merchandise.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke: Is this not great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, extol and honor the King of heaven. All his works are truth, and his ways justice. He is able to abase (humble) (subdue) those who walk in pride.
Zechariah 9:3
Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Luke 12:16-21
He spoke an illustration to them: The land of a rich man produced well.
Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind as others. Do not think lofty things but be led along by lowly things. Do not be wise in your own conceit (self-love) (vanity) (estimation).
1 Timothy 6:17
Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
James 4:13-14
Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit.