28 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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Then Jesus said then unto his disciples: "Verily I say unto you, it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
And Jesus looked round about, and said unto his disciples, "What a hard thing it is for them that have riches enter into the kingdom of God."
When Jesus saw him mourn, he said, "With what difficulty shall they that have riches, enter into the kingdom of God:
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of an needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
Easier it is for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.
He hath filled the hungry with good things: And sendeth away the rich empty.
No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
What will ye do in time of the visitation and destruction, that shall come from far? To whom will ye run for help? Or to whom will ye give your honour, that he may keep it?
Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death.
When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye.
Their goods shall be spoiled, and their houses laid waste. They shall build houses, and not dwell in them: they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
for at one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every ship governor, and all they that occupied ships, and shipmen which work in the sea, stood afar off;
Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, nor increase upon earth.
and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away. The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.
They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.
which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.
For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others.
Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them.
in that a fool sitteth in great dignity, and the rich are set down beneath.
A poor man leading a godly life, is better than the rich that goeth in froward ways.
They shall waste away thy riches, and spoil thy merchandise. Thy walls shall they break down, and destroy thy houses of pleasure. Thy stones, thy timber and foundations shall they cast in the water.
