Mark 10:24

Jesus repeats how hard entry is, calling the disciples "children," and warns against trusting in riches. The deeper danger is misplaced trust, not merely possessing wealth.

Cross-references · 26

• Jas 5:1–3Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Prov 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
• 1 Tim 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
• Rev 3:17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
• 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.”
• Prov 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
• Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
• Ps 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
• Luke 12:16–21Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
• Hab 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
• Ps 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
• Ezek 28:4–5By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
• Luke 18:26–27Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
• Prov 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
• Zeph 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
• Job 31:24–25If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
• 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
• Ps 49:6–7They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
• Jer 9:23This 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.
• John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
• Matt 19:25When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”
• John 6:60On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
• Gal 4:19My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
• 1 Jn 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
• John 21:5So He called out to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” “No,” they answered.
• 1 Jn 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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