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 every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,

lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"

He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

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"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;