13 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you, it will be hard for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven!
And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to enter the Kingdom of God!"
And when Jesus saw it, he said, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the Kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"
It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"
"There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day.
He has satisfied the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty-handed.
No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.
That is the way with the man who lays up money for himself, and is not rich with God."
for in a single hour this vast wealth has been destroyed!' All navigators and all who travel by sea, sailors and sea-faring men, stood a long way off
but one who is rich ought to rejoice at being reduced in circumstances, for the rich will disappear like the wild flowers. For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flowers wither, and all their beauty is gone. That is the way rich men will fade and die in the midst of their pursuits.
But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin.
