Riches

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Micah 2:3 OT

  Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

• Ecclesiastes 5:14 OT

  Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

• James 5:3 NT

  Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

• Proverbs 11:28 OT

  He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

• Luke 6:24 NT

  “But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

• James 5:1 NT

  Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

• Job 20:15-17 OT

  He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him. He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

• Luke 12:16-21 NT

  He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’ He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull…

• Luke 16:19-25 NT

  “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the…

• Genesis 13:2 OT

  Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

• Genesis 13:5 OT

  Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.

• Genesis 13:6 OT

  The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.

• Genesis 26:13 OT

  The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

• Genesis 26:14 OT

  He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

• Genesis 32:5 OT

  I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’ ”

• Genesis 32:10 OT

  I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

• Genesis 45:8 OT

  So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 45:13 OT

  You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

• Ruth 2:1 OT

  Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

• 2 Samuel 19:32 OT

  Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

• 2 Kings 4:8 OT

  One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

• 1 Chronicles 29:28 OT

  He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 17:5 OT

  Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 32:27-29 OT

  Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels; also storehouses for the increase of grain, new…