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Riches

The true riches
Eph 3:8; 1Co 1:30; Col 2:3; 1Pe 2:7;

God gives
1Sa 2:7; Ecc 5:19;

To God belongs this world's riches
Hag 2:8;

God gives power to obtain
Deu 8:18;

The blessing of the Lord brings
Pro 10:22;

Give worldly power
Pro 22:7;

DESCRIBED AS
Temporary
Pro 27:24;

Uncertain
1Ti 6:17;

Unsatisfying
Ecc 4:8; Ecc 5:10;

Corruptible
Jam 5:2; 1Pe 1:18;

Fleeting
Pro 23:5; Rev 18:16; Rev 18:17;

Deceitful
Mat 13:22;

Liable to be stolen
Mat 6:19;

Perishable
Jer 48:36;

Thick clay
Hab 2:6;

Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel
Mar 10:23-25;

Deceitfulness of, chokes the word
Mat 13:22;

The love of, the root of all evil
1Ti 6:10;

OFTEN LEAD TO
Pride
Eze 28:5; Hos 12:8;

Forgetting God
Deu 8:13; Deu 8:14;

Denying God
Pro 30:8; Pro 30:9;

Forsaking God
Deu 32:15;

Rebelling against God
Neh 9:25; Neh 9:26;

Rejecting Christ
Mat 19:22; Mat 10:22;

Self-sufficiency
Pro 28:11;

Anxiety
Ecc 5:12;

An overbearing spirit
Pro 18:23;

Violence
Mic 6:12;

Oppression
Jam 2:6;

Fraud
Jam 5:4;

Sensual indulgence
Luk 16:19; Jam 5:5;

Life consists not in abundance of
Luk 12:15;

Be not over-anxious for
Pro 30:8;

Labour not for
Pro 23:4;

THEY WHO COVET
Fall into temptation and a snare
1Ti 6:9;

Fall into hurtful lusts
1Ti 6:9;

Err from the faith
1Ti 6:10;

Use unlawful means to acquire
Pro 28:20;

Bring trouble on themselves
1Ti 6:10;

Bring trouble on their families
Pro 15:27;

Profit not in the day of wrath
Pro 11:4;

Cannot secure prosperity
Jam 1:11;

Cannot redeem the soul
Psa 49:6-9; 1Pe 1:18;

Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath
Zep 1:18; Rev 6:15-17;

THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD
Ascribe them to God
1Ch 29:12;

Not trust in them
Job 31:24; 1Ti 6:17;

Not set the heart on them
Psa 62:10;

Not boast of obtaining them
Deu 8:17;

Not glory in them
Jer 9:23;

Not hoard them up
Mat 6:19;

Devote them to God's service
1Ch 29:3; Mar 12:42-44;

Give of them to the poor
Mat 19:21; 1Jo 3:17;

Use them in promoting the salvation of others
Luk 16:9;

Be liberal in all things
1Ti 6:18;

Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give
1Ch 29:14;

Not to be high-minded
1Ti 6:17;

When converted, rejoice in being humbled
Jam 1:9; Jam 1:10;

Heavenly treasures superior to
Mat 6:19; Mat 6:20;

Of the wicked laid up for the just
Pro 13:22;

THE WICKED
Often increase in
Psa 73:12;

Often spend their day in
Job 21:13;

Swallow down
Job 20:15;

Trust in the abundance of
Psa 52:7;

Heap up
Job 27:16; Psa 39:6; Ecc 2:26;

Keep, to their hurt
Ecc 5:13;

Boast themselves in
Psa 49:6; Psa 52:7;

Profit not by
Pro 11:4; Pro 13:7; Ecc 5:11;

Have trouble with
Pro 15:6; 1Ti 6:9; 1Ti 6:10;

Must leave, to others
Psa 49:10;

Vanity of heaping up
Psa 39:6; Ecc 5:10; Ecc 5:11;

Guilt of trusting in
Job 31:24; Job 31:28; Eze 28:4; Eze 28:5; Eze 28:8;

Guilt of rejoicing in
Job 31:25; Job 31:28;

DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO
Get, by vanity
Pro 13:11; Pro 21:6;

Get, unlawfully
Jer 17:11;

Increase, by oppression
Pro 22:16; Hab 2:6-8; Mic 2:2; Mic 2:3;

Hoard up
Ecc 5:13; Ecc 5:14; Jam 5:3;

Trust in
Pro 11:28;

Receive their consolation
Luk 6:24;

Abuse
Jam 5:1; Jam 5:5;

Spend, upon their appetite
Job 20:15-17;

Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated
Luk 12:16-21;

Danger of misusing-Illustrated
Luk 16:19-25;

Examples of saints possessing
Abram
Gen 13:2;

Lot
Gen 13:5; Gen 13:6;

Isaac
Gen 26:13; Gen 26:14;

Jacob
Gen 32:5; Gen 32:10;

Joseph
Gen 45:8; Gen 45:13;

Boaz
Rth 2:1;

Barzillai
2Sa 19:32;

Shunammite
2Ki 4:8;

David
1Ch 29:28;

Jehoshaphat
2Ch 17:5;

Hezekiah
2Ch 32:27-29;

Job
Job 1:3;

Joseph of Arimathea
Mat 27:57;

Zacchaeus
Luk 19:2;

Dorcas
Act 9:36;

Examples of those truly rich
Mat 5:8; Mat 8:10; Mat 13:45; Mat 13:46; Luk 10:42; Joh 1:45; Phi 3:8; Jam 2:5; 1Pe 2:7; Rev 3:18;

Examples of wicked men possessing
Laban
Gen 30:30;

Esau
Gen 36:7;

Nabal
1Sa 25:2;

Haman
Est 5:11;

Ammonites
Jer 49:4;

People of Tyre
Eze 28:5;

Young man
Mat 19:22;