27 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, that a rich man will enter into the kingdom of the heavens difficultly.

And Jesus having looked around, he says to his disciples, How difficultly those who have riches will enter into the kingdom of God.

And having seen him become very sorrowful, Jesus said, How difficultly those who have riches will enter into the kingdom of God.

It is easier for a camel to go through the hole of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

For it is easier for a camel to enter in through the hole of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily.

He filled those who are hungry with good things, and those who are rich he sent away empty.

No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?

So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

He lays down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine of it.

Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

Because in one hour such great wealth was devastated. And every shipmaster, and every man who sails anywhere, and sailors, and as many as work by sea, stood from afar

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?

but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away. For the sun rose up with the burning heat, and withered the grass. And the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished. So also the rich man will fade away among his pursuits.

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

For he shall see it. Wise men die. The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise. And they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the wate

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,