Bible Verses about โrich peopleโ
The Bible contains 24 verses about rich people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
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
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
โFor the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.โ
โHe who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.โ
โSell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.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
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
โBehold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.โ
โCome now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.โ
โYour riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.โ
โYour 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.โ
โYou have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.โ
โA poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.โ
โHe called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,โ
โfor they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."โ
โJesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.โ
โYou have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.โ
โFor you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.โ
โBecause 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;โ
โ"But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.โ
โFor it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."โ
