28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, It is difficult that a rich man shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
Then Jesus, looking around, said unto his disciples, How hardly shall those that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How difficult it is for those that have riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
It is easier to pass a cable through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
For it is easier to put a cable through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;
He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and riches.
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?
Riches shall not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness shall deliver from death.
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he shall open his eyes and not see anyone.
Therefore their goods shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster and all the company in ships and sailors and as many as trade by sea stood afar off
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon riches which are not? For they shall certainly make themselves wings; they shall fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
He shall not become rich, nor shall his strength be established, neither shall he extend his beauty upon the earth.
For riches are not for ever, and does the crown endure to every generation?
and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
For those that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
For he sees that all the wise men die, likewise the fool and the ignorant perish and leave their wealth to others.
Surely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up riches not knowing who shall gather them.
He shall restore the work that was not his; according to the substance that he took; neither shall he devour, nor rejoice.
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich are seated in a low place.
Better is the poor that walks in his perfection than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.
And they shall steal thy riches and make a spoil of thy merchandise; and they shall ruin thy walls and destroy thy precious houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.
who long for death, but it comes not; and search for it more than for hid treasures;
