Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Accumulation of wealth » The accumulation of, disappointing
Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay, he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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.
For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.
Condemnation » Increased by » Oppression
Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days. read more.
Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Gold » Liable to » Canker and rust
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.
greed » Misery of
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.
But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
And he threw the pieces of silver down in the temple and departed. And he went and hanged himself.
So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.
Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil! You have planned shame to your house, to make an end of many people, and are sinning in your soul.
greed » Results of » Misery
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.
earthly Riches » The perils of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay, he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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.
For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.
Wealth » Accumulation of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay, he may prepare, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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.
For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.