14 Bible Verses about Riches, Can Lead To
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by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches"?
Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is the LORD?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness. "Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
