Proverbs 8:18

Wisdom Calls

¹⁷ I love {those who love me}, and those who seek me diligently shall find me. ¹⁸ Fortune and glory [are] with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. ¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Riches and Honor

With God

Proverbs 3:16

Length of days [is] in her right hand; in her left hand [are] riches and honor.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these [things] will be added to you.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, the least of all the saints, was given this grace: to proclaim the good news of the fathomless riches of Christ to the Gentiles,

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness [is] {like the mighty mountains}, your judgments [like the] great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.

Psalm 112:3

Wealth and riches [are] in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Proverbs 4:7-9

The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! With all [that is in] your possession, gain insight.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.

Ecclesiastes 5:14-16

That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}.

Matthew 6:19-20

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

Luke 10:42

But few [things] are necessary, or [only] one [thing], for Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her."

Luke 12:20-21

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy.

Luke 16:11-12

If then you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true [riches]?

2 Corinthians 6:10

as grieving, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and possessing everything.

Philippians 3:8-9

{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ

Philippians 4:19

And my God will fulfill your every need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:17-19

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

James 5:1-3

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!

Revelation 3:18

I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see.