28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

Then Jesus told his disciples, "I tell all of you with certainty, it will be hard for a rich person to get into the kingdom from heaven.

Then Jesus looked around and told his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!"

So when Jesus saw how sad he was, he said, "How hard it is for rich people to get into the kingdom of God!

It's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

Indeed, it's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in great luxury every day.

He filled hungry people with good things and sent rich people away with nothing.

"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"

What will you do on the day of Judgment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you run for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

That's how it is with the person who stores up treasures for himself rather than with God."

Wealth won't help in the time of judgment, but righteousness will deliver from death.

He will go to bed wealthy, but won't be doing that anymore! When he opens his eyes, it will be gone!

Therefore their possessions will be seized as plunder and their homes left in ruins. They may build houses, but they won't live in them. They may plant vineyards, but they won't drink their wine."

Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths,

because all this wealth has been destroyed in a single hour!"

When you fix your gaze on it, it's gone, for it sprouts wings for itself and flies to the sky like an eagle.

"He won't become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover the land.

because riches don't endure forever, and crowns don't last from one generation to the next.

and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower. For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.

But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

A good person leaves an inheritance to his grandchildren, but the wealth of the wicked is reserved for the righteous.

Indeed, he will see wise people die; the stupid and the senseless will meet their doom and leave their wealth to others.

In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

"He will restore what he has attained from his work and won't consume it; he won't enjoy the profits from his business transactions,

Foolishness is given great honor, while the prosperous sit in lowly places.

It's better to be poor and live a blameless life than to be rich but crooked in one's lifestyle.

They will plunder your riches and loot your businesses. They'll tear down your walls and demolish your luxurious homes. They'll grab the stones, wood, and rubble from the destruction and dump it all into the Mediterranean Sea.

To those who are longing for death even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure?