7 Bible Verses about Transient Wealth
Most Relevant Verses
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.
He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
"But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: 'The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead (How long will this go on?) -- he who gets rich by extortion!'
You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,
because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
