Proverbs 8:18

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Summary

Proverbs 8:18

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

Riches and honour

James 2:5

Durable

And righteousness

Matthew 6:33

Philippians 3:8

Bible References

Riches and honour

Listen, my dearly loved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Durable

"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.

But there is actual need of few things, really of only one thing. For Mary has chosen the good portion which must not be taken away from her."

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is to be demanded of you. Then who will have all that you have prepared?'

So if you have not proved dependable in handling your ill-gotten riches, who will trust you with the true riches?

sad but always glad, poor but making many people rich, penniless but really possessing everything.

yes, on me, the very least of all His people, this unmerited favor was bestowed -- that I might preach as good news to the heathen the boundless riches of Christ,

My God will amply supply your every need, through Christ Jesus, from His riches in glory.

Continue charging the rich of this world to stop being haughty and not to fix their hope on a thing so uncertain as riches, but on God who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment;

Come now, you rich people, weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are sure to overtake you.

I advise you to buy of me gold that has been refined in the fire, so that you may become rich, and white clothes to put on, to hide your shameful nakedness, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see.

And righteousness

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ