Riches
The true riches -- Eph 3:8; 1Co 1:30; Col 2:3; 1Pe 2:7. God gives -- 1Sa 2:7; Ec 5:19. To God belongs this world's riches -- Hag 2:8. God gives power to obtain -- De 8:18. The blessing of the Lord brings -- Pr 10:22. Give worldly power -- Pr 22:7. Described as Temporary. -- Pr 27:24. Uncertain. -- 1Ti 6:17. Unsatisfying. -- Ec 4:8; 5:10. Corruptible. -- Jas 5:2; 1Pe 1:18. Fleeting. -- Pr 23:5; Re 18:16,17. Deceitful. -- Mt 13:22. Liable to be stolen. -- Mt 6:19. Perishable. -- Jer 48:36. Thick clay. -- Hab 2:6. Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel -- Mr 10:23-25. Deceitfulness of, chokes the word -- Mt 13:22. The love of, the root of all evil -- 1Ti 6:10. Often lead to Pride. -- Eze 28:5; Ho 12:8. Forgetting God. -- De 8:13,14. Denying God. -- Pr 30:8,9. Forsaking God. -- De 32:15. Rebelling against God. -- Ne 9:25,26. Rejecting Christ. -- Mt 19:22; 10:22. Self-sufficiency. -- Pr 28:11. Anxiety. -- Ec 5:12. An overbearing spirit. -- Pr 18:23. Violence. -- Mic 6:12. Oppression. -- Jas 2:6. Fraud. -- Jas 5:4. Sensual indulgence. -- Lu 16:19; Jas 5:5. Life consists not in abundance of -- Lu 12:15. Be not over-anxious for -- Pr 30:8. Labour not for -- Pr 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. -- Pr 28:20. Bring trouble on themselves. -- 1Ti 6:10. Bring trouble on their families. -- Pr 15:27. Profit not in the day of wrath -- Pr 11:4. Cannot secure prosperity -- Jas 1:11. Cannot redeem the soul -- Ps 49:6-9; 1Pe 1:18. Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath -- Zep 1:18; Re 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. -- Ps 62:10. Not boast of obtaining them. -- De 8:17. Not glory in them. -- Jer 9:23. Not hoard them up. -- Mt 6:19. Devote them to God's service. -- 1Ch 29:3; Mr 12:42-44. Give of them to the poor. -- Mt 19:21; 1Jo 3:17. Use them in promoting the salvation of others. -- Lu 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. -- Jas 1:9,10. Heavenly treasures superior to -- Mt 6:19,20. Of the wicked laid up for the just -- Pr 13:22. The wicked Often increase in. -- Ps 73:12. Often spend their day in. -- Job 21:13. Swallow down. -- Job 20:15. Trust in the abundance of. -- Ps 52:7. Heap up. -- Job 27:16; Ps 39:6; Ec 2:26. Keep, to their hurt. -- Ec 5:13. Boast themselves in. -- Ps 49:6; 52:7. Profit not by. -- Pr 11:4; 13:7; Ec 5:11. Have trouble with. -- Pr 15:6; 1Ti 6:9,10. Must leave, to others. -- Ps 49:10. Vanity of heaping up -- Ps 39:6; Ec 5:10,11. Guilt of trusting in -- Job 31:24,28; Eze 28:4,5,8. Guilt of rejoicing in -- Job 31:25,28. Denunciations against those who Get, by vanity. -- Pr 13:11; 21:6. Get, unlawfully. -- Jer 17:11. Increase, by oppression. -- Pr 22:16; Hab 2:6-8; Mic 2:2,3. Hoard up. -- Ec 5:13,14; Jas 5:3. Trust in. -- Pr 11:28. Receive their consolation. -- Lu 6:24. Abuse. -- Jas 5:1,5. Spend, upon their appetite. -- Job 20:15-17. Folly and danger of trusting to -- Illustrated. -- Lu 12:16-21. Danger of misusing -- Illustrated -- Lu 16:19-25. Examples of saints possessing Abram. -- Ge 13:2. Lot. -- Ge 13:5,6. Isaac. -- Ge 26:13,14. Jacob. -- Ge 32:5,10. Joseph. -- Ge 45:8,13. Boaz. -- Ru 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. -- Mt 27:57. Zacchaeus. -- Lu 19:2. Dorcas. -- Ac 9:36. Examples of those truly rich -- Mt 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Lu 10:42; Joh 1:45; Php 3:8; Jas 2:5; 1Pe 2:7; Re 3:18. Examples of wicked men possessing Laban. -- Ge 30:30. Esau. -- Ge 36:7. Nabal. -- 1Sa 25:2. Haman. -- Es 5:11. Ammonites. -- Jer 49:4. People of Tyre. -- Eze 28:5. Young man. -- Mt 19:22.