Riches

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• General scriptures concerningDeuteronomy 6:10–12Deuteronomy 8:10–18Deuteronomy 31:20Deuteronomy 32:151 Samuel 2:7Psalms 37:16Proverbs 10:2Proverbs 10:22Proverbs 11:4Proverbs 11:28Proverbs 13:7Proverbs 13:8Proverbs 14:24Proverbs 15:6Proverbs 15:16Proverbs 15:17Proverbs 16:8Proverbs 19:4Proverbs 21:6Proverbs 23:4
• FIGURATIVERevelation 3:18
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The passages, in Bible order (51)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Deuteronomy 6:10–12

   And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

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2. Deuteronomy 8:10–18

   When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 8:10–182 voices

   “When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God,.... For as the Lord would furnish them with plenty of food, they might eat of it liberally, provided they did not indulge to intemperance, as everyone may whom God has blessed with a fulness of good things; and this shows that we are to return thanks to God for a plentiful meal, as well as to ask a blessing on it: for the good land which he hath given thee; which supplied them with such plenty, that they enjoyed full meals every day.

   “They must not have any fellowship with those that, when they had eaten and were full, blessed false gods, as the Israelites themselves had done in their worship of the golden calf, Exod. xxxii. Whatever they had the comfort of God must have the glory of.

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3. Deuteronomy 31:20

   When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

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4. Deuteronomy 32:15

   But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:152 voices

   “Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.

   “Jeshurun - ישרון the upright. This appellative is here put for Israel, and as it comes from ישר yashar, he was right, straight, may be intended to show that the people who once not only promised fair, but were really upright, walking in the paths of righteousness, should, in the time signified by the prophet, not only revolt from God, but actually fight against him; like a full fed horse, who not only will not bear the harness, but breaks away from his master, and endeavors to kick him as he struggles to get loose.

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5. 1 Samuel 2:7

   The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

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6. Psalms 37:16

   Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 37:162 voices

   “A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. This is a fine proverb. The little of one good man is contrasted with the riches of many wicked, and so the expression is rendered the more forcible. There is more happiness in the godly dinner of herbs than in the stalled ox of profane rioters.

   “(Vers. 16.) It is better to be a little just, than to have many riches from the sins of the wicked. Therefore, riches are not condemned, but the riches of sinners; unless perhaps because a sinner said: All these things have been delivered to me, and I give them to whomever I wish (Luke 4:6). Furthermore, since riches inflame the torch of greed more, and each person desires greater things, they do not turn away from the paths of sin. Hence, the Savior said: Make friends for yourselves with the mammon of wickedness (Luke 16:9).

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7. Proverbs 10:2

   Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

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8. Proverbs 10:22

   The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.

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9. Proverbs 11:4

   Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 11:41 voice

   [Solomon] leads toward understanding especially when he says, "Possessions are of no advantage in the day of wrath." For he infused your heart with the knowledge that an abundance of money will be of no help to you in that day, nor will it remove eternal punishment. And when he says, "The innocent will inherit the earth," he clearly means the earth of which the meek are also heirs, for first the psalmist said, "But the meek will inherit the earth," and then the Lord, when preaching about beatitude, said, "Blessed are the meek, for they will possess the earth."

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10. Proverbs 11:28

    He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 11:282 voices

    “He who trusts in his riches will fall, etc. He who hankers after present goods and does not think of future ones, will lack both in the end. But those who do good in the hope of future rewards, justly receive what they hope for …

    “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall,.... As leaves in autumn, which are withered and dry.

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11. Proverbs 13:7

    One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

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    “Compare Pro 11:24. There is a seeming wealth behind which there lies a deep spiritual poverty and wretchedness. There is a poverty which makes a person rich for the kingdom of God.

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12. Proverbs 13:8

    Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 13:82 voices

    “A man's riches ought to avail to the ransom of his soul, not to its destruction. And a treasure is a ransom, if a man use it well; on the other hand it is a snare, if a man know not how to use it. What is a man's money to him but a provision for his journey? Much is a burthen, a little is useful.

    “The ransom of a man's life are his riches,.... As Benhadad's were to him, when he was in the hands of the king of Israel, 1Ki 20:34; and as the treasures the ten men had in the field were to them, for the sake of which Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, slew them not, Jer 41:

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13. Proverbs 14:24

    The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the effort of fools is folly.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 14:241 voice

    “But the foolishness of fools is folly - The Targum reads, The honor of fools is folly. The fool, from his foolishness, produces acts of folly. This appears to be the meaning.

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14. Proverbs 15:6

    The house of the righteous has great treasure, but the income of the wicked is trouble.

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15. Proverbs 15:16

    Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 15:161 voice

    “Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, etc. As it is in the psalm: Better is a little that the righteous person has than the riches of many wicked (Ps. XXXVI). It is better, therefore, to lack wealth or even daily sustenance …

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16. Proverbs 15:17

    Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 15:171 voice

    “A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The “stalled ox,” like the “fatted calf” of Luk 15:23, would indicate a stately magnificence.

    Everything gathered on Proverbs 15:17→

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