Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
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Bible References
Riches
Mark 8:36
For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?
Mark 10:23
Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!"
Luke 12:15
And then He said to them, "Be ever on the alert and always on your guard against every form of greed, because a man's life does not consist in his possessions, even though they are abundant."
1 Timothy 6:17
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;
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Matthew 6:19
"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.