Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Bible References
General references
Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;
Psalm 39:6
Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.
Psalm 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!
Proverbs 23:5
Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.
Zephaniah 1:18
Their silver nor their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy. For He shall make even a full, yea, a speedy end of all the dwellers in the land.
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
Luke 18:24
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, He said, How hardly those having riches shall enter into the kingdom of God!
1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and clothing, we will be content.
Hebrews 13:5
Let your way of life be without the love of money, and be content with such things as you have, for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!"
James 5:1
Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,