'Rich' in the Bible

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “I assure you: It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

Again I tell you, 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.”

When it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

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.”

Sitting across from the temple treasury, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.

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.

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

that by Him you were enriched in everything—in all speech and all knowledge.

You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us—and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

Instruct them to do what is good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,

but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will wither away while pursuing his activities.

Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him?

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

I know your affliction and poverty, yet you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed, and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see.

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the military commanders, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,

The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand far off in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,

They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning:Woe, woe, the great city,where all those who have ships on the seabecame rich from her wealth,for in a single hour she was destroyed.