Riches

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Jeremiah 48:36 OT

  Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

• Habakkuk 2:6 OT

  Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

• Mark 10:23-25 NT

  Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!” The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in…

• 1 Timothy 6:10 NT

  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

• Ezekiel 28:5 OT

  by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

• Hosea 12:8 OT

  Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

• Deuteronomy 8:13 OT

  and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

• Deuteronomy 8:14 OT

  then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

• Proverbs 30:8 OT

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,

• Proverbs 30:9 OT

  lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

• Deuteronomy 32:15 OT

  But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

• Nehemiah 9:25 OT

  They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great…

• Nehemiah 9:26 OT

  “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

• Matthew 19:22 NT

  But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

• Matthew 10:22 NT

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

• Proverbs 28:11 OT

  The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

• Ecclesiastes 5:12 OT

  The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

• Proverbs 18:23 OT

  The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

• Micah 6:12 OT

  Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

• James 2:6 NT

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

• James 5:4 NT

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

• Luke 16:19 NT

  “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

• James 5:5 NT

  You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

• Luke 12:15 NT

  He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”