13 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches
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And Jesus said to His disciples, "Verily I say to you, that with difficulty shall a rich man enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
And, looking around, Jesus saith to His disciples, "With what difficulty shall those who have riches enter into the Kingdom of God!"
And Jesus, seeing him, said, "With what difficulty do those having riches 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."
for it is easier for a camel to enter 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, faring sumptuously every day.
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
So is he who is laying up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
because in one hour so great wealth was made desolate!' And every ship-master, and every one sailing to any place, and mariners, and as many as do business at sea, stood afar off;
and the rich, in his humiliation; because, as a flower of grass, he shall pass away. For the sun arose with scorching heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished, so also will the rich man fade away in his goings.
But those, purposing to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which, indeed, sink men into destruction and perdition.