13 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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Then Jesus said to his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That very difficultly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven.
And Jesus looking round, said to his disciples, How difficultly shall they who have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Then Jesus, observing that he was very sorrowful, said, How difficultly shall they who have riches, enter into the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to 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 enter into the kingdom of God.
Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making splendid entertainments every day:
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Just such is every one who heapeth up treasure for self, and is not rich towards God.
And every pilot, and all the crew in the ships, and the mariners, and as many as exercise their labours on the sea, stood afar off,
but the rich, in his abasement: for as the flower of grass he shall pass away. For the sun arose with fervour, and burnt up the grass, and the flower of it fell off, and the beauty of its appearance was lost: just so the rich man in his course of life shall wither away.
For they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful passions, which sink men in the abyss of destruction and perdition.
