'Rich' in the Bible
He has satisfied the hungry with good thingsand sent the rich away empty.
But woe to you who are rich,for you have received your comfort.
Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.
“That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.
He also said to the disciples: “There was a rich man who received an accusation that his manager was squandering his possessions.
“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.
He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.
One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.
After he heard this, he became extremely sad, because he was very rich.
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.