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

Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

"Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength, but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and was mighty in his wickedness!"

And when the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give thee with great and goodly cities which thou buildst not,

yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein,

Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay,

"Have I put my trust in gold? Or, have I said to the finest gold of all, 'Thou art my confidence?'

What shall it profit a man, if he should win all the world and lose his own soul?

And Jesus looked round about, and said unto his disciples, "What a hard thing it is for them that have riches enter into the kingdom of God."

Wherefore he said unto them, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness. For no man's life standeth in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not exceeding wise, and that they trust not in the uncertain riches, but in the living God, which giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy them,

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"Have I put my trust in gold? Or, have I said to the finest gold of all, 'Thou art my confidence?'

But the rich man's goods are his stronghold, yea he taketh them for a high wall round about him.

All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.

"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: