'Rich' in the Bible

And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I say to you that with difficulty a rich person will enter into the kingdom of heaven!

And again I say to you, it is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich person into the kingdom of God."

Now [when it] was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who also was a disciple of Jesus himself.

It is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than [for] a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God."

And he sat down opposite the contribution box [and] was observing how the crowd was putting coins into the contribution box. And many rich people were putting in many [coins].

He has filled those who are hungry with good [things], and those who are rich he has sent away empty-handed.

"But woe to you who are rich, because you have received your comfort.

And he told a parable to them, saying, "The land of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.

So [is] the one who stores up treasure for himself, and who is not rich toward God!"

And he also said to the disciples, "A certain man was rich, who had a manager. And charges were brought to him that this person was squandering his possessions.

"Now a certain man was rich, and dressed [in] purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.

and was longing to be filled with what fell from the table of the rich man. But even the dogs came [and] licked his sores.

Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to {Abraham's side}. And the rich man also died and was buried.

For it is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than [for] a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.

And {there was} a man {named} Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he [was] rich.

And he looked up [and] saw the rich putting their gifts into the contribution box,

For [there] is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same [Lord] [is] Lord of all, who is rich to all who call upon him.

that in everything you were made rich in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!

as grieving, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and possessing everything.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that [although he] was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich.

being made rich in every [way] for all generosity, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

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

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing freely,

but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass.

For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits will wither away.

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!

'I know your affliction and poverty (but you are rich), and the slander of those {who call themselves Jews} and are not, but [are] a synagogue of Satan.

Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,

I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see.

And the kings of the earth, and the most important people, and the military leaders, and the rich, and the powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

And he causes all [people], the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, that they give them a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

For all the nations have drunk from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the power of her sensuality."

The merchants of these [things], who became rich from them, will stand {far off}, weeping and mourning because of the fear of her torment,

And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, in which all those who had ships on the sea became rich from her prosperity, because in one hour she has been laid waste!"