Psalm 62:10

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Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Riches

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Riches

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.

Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.

And it shall be when Jehovah your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and good cities which you did not build,

lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them,

Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay,

If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;

For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

And Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, How hardly those having riches will enter into the kingdom of God!

And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

Charge the rich in this world that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, He offering to us richly all things to enjoy,

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If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own mind.

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.