13 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

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

And Jesus looking around, says to His disciples; How hardly shall those having riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Jesus seeing him said, How hardly will those having riches enter into the kingdom of God!

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

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

There was a certain rich man, and he was habitually clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day.

He filled the poor with good things, and sent away the rich empty.

No one is able to serve two masters: for he will hate the one, and love the other; or cleave to the one, and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and mammon.

So is every one laying up treasure for himself, and not rich toward God.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:

And every pilot, and every one sailing to the place, both the sailors and so many as traverse the sea, stood a long way off,

and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways.

But those wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown the people in destruction and perdition.