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 30:9lest 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.
• Jas 2:5–7Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Mark 10:23–27Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”
• Prov 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
• Matt 19:23–25Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
• 2 Cor 7:9–10I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
• Deut 8:11–17Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
• Ps 73:5–12They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
• Jer 5:5I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
• Deut 6:10–12It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
• Jer 2:31Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
• 1 Tim 6:9–10But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• Mark 6:26The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.
• Prov 18:11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
• 1 Cor 1:26–27For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
• Jas 5:1–6Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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