Riches

The true riches Ephesians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Colossians 2:3; 1 Peter 2:7
God gives 1 Samuel 2:7; Ecclesiastes 5:19
To God belongs this world's riches Haggai 2:8
God gives power to obtain Deuteronomy 8:18
The blessing of the Lord brings Proverbs 10:22
Give worldly power Proverbs 22:7
DESCRIBED AS
- Temporary Proverbs 27:24
- Uncertain 1 Timothy 6:17
- Unsatisfying Ecclesiastes 4:8; 5:10
- Corruptible James 5:2; 1 Peter 1:18
- Fleeting Proverbs 23:5; Revelation 18:16,17
- Deceitful Matthew 13:22
- Liable to be stolen Matthew 6:19
- Perishable Jeremiah 48:36
- Thick clay Habakkuk 2:6
Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel Mark 10:23-25
Deceitfulness of, chokes the word Matthew 13:22
The love of, the root of all evil 1 Timothy 6:10
OFTEN LEAD TO
- Pride Ezekiel 28:5; Hosea 12:8
- Forgetting God Deuteronomy 8:13,14
- Denying God Proverbs 30:8,9
- Forsaking God Deuteronomy 32:15
- Rebelling against God Nehemiah 9:25,26
- Rejecting Christ Matthew 19:22; 10:22
- Self-sufficiency Proverbs 28:11
- Anxiety Ecclesiastes 5:12
- An overbearing spirit Proverbs 18:23
- Violence Micah 6:12
- Oppression James 2:6
- Fraud James 5:4
- Sensual indulgence Luke 16:19; James 5:5
Life consists not in abundance of Luke 12:15
Be not over-anxious for Proverbs 30:8
Labour not for Proverbs 23:4
THEY WHO COVET
- Fall into temptation and a snare 1 Timothy 6:9
- Fall into hurtful lusts 1 Timothy 6:9
- Err from the faith 1 Timothy 6:10
- Use unlawful means to acquire Proverbs 28:20
- Bring trouble on themselves 1 Timothy 6:10
- Bring trouble on their families Proverbs 15:27
Profit not in the day of wrath Proverbs 11:4
Cannot secure prosperity James 1:11
Cannot redeem the soul Psalm 49:6-9; 1 Peter 1:18
Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath Zephaniah 1:18; Revelation 6:15-17
THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD
- Ascribe them to God 1 Chronicles 29:12
- Not trust in them Job 31:24; 1 Timothy 6:17
- Not set the heart on them Psalm 62:10
- Not boast of obtaining them Deuteronomy 8:17
- Not glory in them Jeremiah 9:23
- Not hoard them up Matthew 6:19
- Devote them to God's service 1 Chronicles 29:3; Mark 12:42-44
- Give of them to the poor Matthew 19:21; 1 John 3:17
- Use them in promoting the salvation of others Luke 16:9
- Be liberal in all things 1 Timothy 6:18
- Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give 1 Chronicles 29:14
- Not to be high-minded 1 Timothy 6:17
- When converted, rejoice in being humbled James 1:9,10
Heavenly treasures superior to Matthew 6:19,20
Of the wicked laid up for the just Proverbs 13:22
THE WICKED
- Often increase in Psalm 73:12
- Often spend their day in Job 21:13
- Swallow down Job 20:15
- Trust in the abundance of Psalm 52:7
- Heap up Job 27:16; Psalm 39:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26
- Keep, to their hurt Ecclesiastes 5:13
- Boast themselves in Psalm 49:6; 52:7
- Profit not by Proverbs 11:4; 13:7; Ecclesiastes 5:11
- Have trouble with Proverbs 15:6; 1 Timothy 6:9,10
- Must leave, to others Psalm 49:10
Vanity of heaping up Psalm 39:6; Ecclesiastes 5:10,11
Guilt of trusting in Job 31:24,28; Ezekiel 28:4,5,8
Guilt of rejoicing in Job 31:25,28
DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO
- Get, by vanity Proverbs 13:11; 21:6
- Get, unlawfully Jeremiah 17:11
- Increase, by oppression Proverbs 22:16; Habakkuk 2:6-8; Micah 2:2,3
- Hoard up Ecclesiastes 5:13,14; James 5:3
- Trust in Proverbs 11:28
- Receive their consolation Luke 6:24
- Abuse James 5:1,5
- Spend, upon their appetite Job 20:15-17
- Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated Luke 12:16-21
Danger of misusing-Illustrated Luke 16:19-25
Examples of saints possessing
- Abram Genesis 13:2
- Lot Genesis 13:5,6
- Isaac Genesis 26:13,14
- Jacob Genesis 32:5,10
- Joseph Genesis 45:8,13
- Boaz Ruth 2:1
- Barzillai 2 Samuel 19:32
- Shunammite 2 Kings 4:8
- David 1 Chronicles 29:28
- Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 17:5
- Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 32:27-29
- Job Job 1:3
- Joseph of Arimathea Matthew 27:57
- Zacchaeus Luke 19:2
- Dorcas Acts 9:36
Examples of those truly rich Matthew 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Luke 10:42; John 1:45; Philippians 3:8; James 2:5; 1 Peter 2:7; Revelation 3:18
Examples of wicked men possessing
- Laban Genesis 30:30
- Esau Genesis 36:7
- Nabal 1 Samuel 25:2
- Haman Esther 5:11
- Ammonites Jeremiah 49:4
- People of Tyre Ezekiel 28:5
- Young man Matthew 19:22

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