14 Bible Verses about Riches, Can Lead To
Most Relevant Verses
By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:
And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort; Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food: For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them. But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.
The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
