Luke 18:24

Jesus observes how hard it is for the rich to enter God's Kingdom. Wealth easily becomes a rival to God.

Cross-references · 17

• 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.
• Jas 2:5–7Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• Mark 10:23–27Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
• Prov 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
• Matt 19:23–25Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
• 2 Cor 7:9–10And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.
• Deut 8:11–17Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
• Ps 73:5–12They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.
• Jer 5:5I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
• Deut 6:10–12And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
• 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’?
• 1 Tim 6:9–10Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
• Mark 6:26The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.
• Prov 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
• 1 Cor 1:26–27Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
• Jas 5:1–6Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

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