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 rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Prov 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Rev 3:17Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
• Ps 52:7“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
• Prov 18:11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
• Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• Ps 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
• Luke 12:16–21He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
• Hab 2:9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
• Ps 17:14from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
• Ezek 28:4–5by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
• Luke 18:26–27Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”
• Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
• Zeph 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
• Job 31:24–25“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
• 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
• Ps 49:6–7Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches —
• Jer 9:23Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
• John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
• Matt 19:25When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”
• John 6:60Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —
• 1 Jn 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• John 21:5Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”
• 1 Jn 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

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