Thematic Bible: Often lead to
Thematic Bible
Riches » Often lead to » Rejecting Christ
And you will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
Riches » Often lead to » Pride
by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches"?
Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
Riches » Often lead to » Sensual indulgence
You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Riches » Often lead to » Forgetting God
and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
Riches » Often lead to » Anxiety
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
Riches » Often lead to » Forsaking God
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Riches » Often lead to » Rebelling against God
They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness. "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Riches » Often lead to » Denying God
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is the LORD?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Riches » Often lead to » An overbearing spirit
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
Riches » Often lead to » Self-sufficiency
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
Riches » Often lead to » Violence
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Riches » Often lead to » Fraud
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Riches » Often lead to » Oppression
But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?