'Rich' in the Bible
And Jesus said to his disciples, Verily I say unto you, A rich man shall with difficulty enter into the kingdom of the heavens;
and again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to enter a needle's eye than a rich man into the kingdom of God.
Now when even was come there came a rich man of Arimathaea, his name Joseph, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
And Jesus, having sat down opposite the treasury, saw how the crowd was casting money into the treasury; and many rich cast in much.
He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent away the rich empty.
But woe to you rich, for ye have received your consolation.
And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.
And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused to him as wasting his goods.
Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.
and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.
And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
But when he heard this he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.
for it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
And behold, there was a man by name called Zacchaeus, and he was chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.
And he looked up and saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury;
For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich towards all that call upon him.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might be enriched.
but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.
Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in distributing, disposed to communicate of their substance,
and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.
For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.
Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?
But ye have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not they drag you before the tribunals?
Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.
I know thy tribulation and thy poverty; but thou art rich; and the railing of those who say that they themselves are Jews, and are not, but a synagogue of Satan.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
I counsel thee to buy of me gold purified by fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white garments, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the chiliarchs, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead;