Quotes about Riches
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Jeremiah 17:11
Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’
- Jeremiah 49:4
By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
- Ezekiel 28:4
He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and over all the riches of Egypt, and the Libyans and Cushites will also submit to him.
- Daniel 11:43
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
- Hosea 12:8
“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
- Nahum 2:9
The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Haggai 2:8
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
- Zechariah 9:3
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
- Zechariah 11:5
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
- Matthew 6:29
When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
- Matthew 19:22
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 19:23