RICH, THE

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• Genesis 13:2

  Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

• Genesis 24:35

  Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

• 1 Kings 10:23

  So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

• 2 Kings 20:12

  At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

• 2 Kings 20:13

  Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

• 2 Kings 20:14

  Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”

• 2 Kings 20:15

  He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

• 2 Kings 20:16

  Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word.

• 2 Kings 20:17

  ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 20:18

  ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

• Nehemiah 5:1

  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

• Nehemiah 5:2

  For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 5:5

  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

• Nehemiah 5:6

  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 5:12

  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 5:13

  Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even be he shaken out, and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

• Job 1:3

  His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

• Job 21:7

  “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

• Job 21:8

  Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.

• Job 21:9

  Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

• Job 21:10

  Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

• Job 21:11

  They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

• Job 21:12

  They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

• Job 21:13

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Job 21:14

  They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Job 27:13

  “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

• Job 27:14

  If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

• Job 27:15

  Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

• Job 27:16

  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

• Job 27:17

  he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

• Job 27:18

  He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

• Job 27:19

  He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

• Job 27:20

  Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

• Job 27:21

  The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

• Job 27:22

  For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

• Job 27:23

  Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

• Job 31:24

  “If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

• Job 31:25

  If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

• Job 31:28

  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

• Psalms 49:16

  Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

• Psalms 49:17

  for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

• Psalms 52:1

  For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

• Psalms 52:2

  Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

• Psalms 52:3

  You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

• Psalms 52:4

  You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

• Psalms 52:5

  God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

• Psalms 52:6

  The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

• Psalms 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.”

• Psalms 73:3

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:4

  For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

• Psalms 73:5

  They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

• Psalms 73:6

  Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

• Psalms 73:7

  Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

• Psalms 73:8

  They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

• Psalms 73:9

  They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

• Psalms 73:10

  Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

• Psalms 73:11

  They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

• Psalms 73:12

  Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

• Psalms 73:13

  Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

• Psalms 73:14

  For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

• Psalms 73:15

  If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

• Psalms 73:16

  When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

• Psalms 73:17

  Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

• Psalms 73:18

  Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

• Psalms 73:20

  As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

• Psalms 73:21

  For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

• Psalms 73:22

  I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

• Proverbs 14:20

  The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

• Proverbs 18:11

  The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

• Proverbs 18:23

  The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

• Proverbs 28:11

  The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

• Ecclesiastes 5:13

  There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

• Ecclesiastes 5:14

  Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

• Ecclesiastes 5:19

  Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor — this is the gift of God.

• Ecclesiastes 5:20

  For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

• Jeremiah 5:7

  “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

• Jeremiah 5:8

  They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

• Jeremiah 5:9

  Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh; “and shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

• Jeremiah 5:27

  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

• Jeremiah 5:28

  They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.

• Jeremiah 5:29

  “Shall I not punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

• Jeremiah 9:23

  Yahweh 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.

• Jeremiah 17:11

  As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the middle of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

• Jeremiah 22:13

  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

• Jeremiah 22:14

  who says, ‘I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

• Jeremiah 22:15

  “Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

• Jeremiah 22:16

  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• Jeremiah 22:18

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’

• Jeremiah 22:19

  He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

• Ezekiel 7:19

  They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls, neither fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

• Ezekiel 28:5

  by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches —

• Amos 6:1

  Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

• Amos 6:2

  Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

• Amos 6:3

  Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

• Amos 6:4

  Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;

• Amos 6:5

  who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

• Amos 6:6

  who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

• Micah 6:12

  Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

• Zephaniah 1:18

  Neither 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.

• Matthew 19:23

  Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

• Matthew 19:24

  Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

• Matthew 27:57

  When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.

• Mark 10:17

  As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

• Mark 10:18

  Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one — God.

• Mark 10:19

  You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”

• Mark 10:20

  He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”

• Mark 10:21

  Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

• Mark 10:22

  But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

• Mark 10:23

  Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

• Mark 10:24

  The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

• Mark 10:25

  It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

• Mark 10:26

  They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”

• Mark 10:27

  Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

• Luke 6:24

  “But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

• Luke 6:25

  Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

• Luke 12:15

  He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

• Luke 12:16

  He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

• Luke 12:17

  He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

• Luke 12:18

  He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

• Luke 12:19

  I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’

• Luke 12:20

  “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’

• Luke 12:21

  So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

• Luke 16:13

  No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

• Luke 16:14

  The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

• Luke 16:19

  “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

• Luke 16:20

  A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

• Luke 16:21

  and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

• Luke 16:22

  The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

• Luke 16:23

  In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

• Luke 16:24

  He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

• Luke 16:25

  “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

• Luke 16:26

  Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

• Luke 18:22

  When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

• Luke 18:23

  But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

• Luke 18:24

  Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

• Luke 18:25

  For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 18:26

  Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

• Luke 19:2

  There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

• 1 Timothy 6:17

  Charge 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;

• 1 Timothy 6:18

  that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

• 1 Timothy 6:19

  laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

• James 1:9

  But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

• James 1:10

  and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

• James 1:11

  For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

• James 5:1

  Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

• James 5:2

  Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

• James 5:3

  Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.