28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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Then Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you that a rich man will with great difficulty enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
And Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, How hardly those having riches will enter into the kingdom of God!
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, He said, How hardly those having riches shall enter into the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God.
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God.
There was a certain rich man who was customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day.
He has filled the hungry with good things, and He has sent away the rich empty.
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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
And what will you do in the day of judgment and in destruction, of ruin when it comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
And their goods shall become a prize and their houses a waste. They shall also build houses, but not live in them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.
For in one hour such great riches was desolated. And every ship-pilot, and all the company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood afar off.
Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.
He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out, nor shall he stretch out his gain on the earth.
For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation.
and the rich one rejoice in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass. For the sun rose with the hot wind and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also the rich one will fade away in his ways.
But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.
giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it.
foolishness is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.
And they shall plunder your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. And they shall break down your walls and destroy your desirable houses. And they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.
who is waiting for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for treasures?
