29 Bible Verses about Getting Rich
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or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.
A stingy manhastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."
Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."
All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel."
for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.'" But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.
Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,
Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.
Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.
and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,
Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
