Luke 18:24

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Summary

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

He was

Mark 6:26

2 Corinthians 7:9

How

General references

Matthew 6:19

Bible References

He was

And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.

Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

How

And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.

And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

General references

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.