Bible Verses about โrichโ
The Bible contains 32 verses about rich across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.โ
โ"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.โ
โBe free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."โ
โ"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'โ
โFor the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.โ
โfor where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.โ
โbut lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;โ
โ"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;โ
โThe rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.โ
โBut 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.โ
โ"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.โ
โCharge 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;โ
โIn Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.โ
โHe 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.'โ
โBesides 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 none may cross over from there to us.'โ
โIt happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.โ
โ"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.โ
โA certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,โ
โand desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.โ
โ"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;โ
โfor I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'โ
โ"But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'โ
โ"He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'โ
โ"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"โ
โBut godliness with contentment is great gain.โ
โBut having food and clothing, we will be content with that.โ
โFor we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.โ
โBlessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.โ
โIt is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."โ
โYahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.โ
โHe lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.โ
โThe disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!โ
