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Want to know what the Bible says about Riches? Here are 205 Bible verses about Riches from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Ecclesiastes 2:26 NIV
To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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Psalm 49:6 NIV
those who trust in their wealth
    and boast of their great riches?
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Ecclesiastes 5:11 NIV
As goods increase,
    so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
    except to feast their eyes on them?
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1 Timothy 6:9-10 NIV
9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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Psalm 49:10 NIV
For all can see that the wise die,
    that the foolish and the senseless also perish,
    leaving their wealth to others.
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-11 NIV
10 Whoever loves money never has enough;
    whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
    This too is meaningless.
11 As goods increase,
    so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
    except to feast their eyes on them?
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Job 31:28 NIV
then these also would be sins to be judged,
    for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
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Jeremiah 17:11 NIV
Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
    and in the end they will prove to be fools.
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Habakkuk 2:6-8 NIV
6 “Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying,
“‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods
    and makes himself wealthy by extortion!
    How long must this go on?’
7 Will not your creditors suddenly arise?
    Will they not wake up and make you tremble?
    Then you will become their prey.
8 Because you have plundered many nations,
    the peoples who are left will plunder you.
For you have shed human blood;
    you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
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Micah 2:2-3 NIV
2 They covet fields and seize them,
    and houses, and take them.
They defraud people of their homes,
    they rob them of their inheritance.
3 Therefore, the Lord says:
“I am planning disaster against this people,
    from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,
    for it will be a time of calamity.
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