1 Timothy 6:17

The wealthy are charged not to be arrogant or to trust in uncertain riches, but to hope in God who richly provides everything to enjoy. Right use of wealth begins with trust in God rather than money.

Cross-references · 40

• Prov 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
• Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
• Matt 19:23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
• Prov 27:24for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
• 1 Tim 4:10To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
• Jas 1:9–10The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
• Jer 9:23–24This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
• Prov 30:9Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
• Jer 17:7–8But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
• Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• Deut 8:17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
• Ps 84:11–12For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• Prov 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
• Eccl 5:18–19Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
• Ps 104:28When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
• Rom 11:20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
• Dan 5:19–23Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.
• Job 31:24–25If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
• Ezek 16:56Did you not treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn in the day of your pride,
• Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
• Titus 3:6This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
• 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines
• Luke 19:2And there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, who was very wealthy.
• Gen 13:2And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
• Luke 12:15–21And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
• Eph 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
• Hos 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
• 2 Chr 32:25–26But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 26:16But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
• Ps 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
• Job 1:1–3There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
• Ps 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
• Eccl 5:13–14There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
• Ps 10:3–4For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
• Ps 118:8–9It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
• Jer 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
• Mark 10:24And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
• Deut 33:15with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,

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