Bible Verses About Riches

Avram became wealthy, with much cattle, silver and gold.

Lot, who was traveling with Avram, also had flocks, herds and tents.

But the land could not support their living together, because their possessions were too great for them to remain together.

The man became rich and prospered more and more, until he had become very wealthy indeed.

He had flocks, cattle and a large household; and the P'lishtim envied him.

The few you had before I came have increased substantially; ADONAI has blessed you wherever I went. But now, when will I provide for my own household?"

I have cattle, donkeys and flocks, and male and female servants. I am sending to tell this news to my lord, in order to win your favor."'"

I'm not worthy of all the love and faithfulness you have shown your servant, since I crossed the Yarden with only my staff. But now I have become two camps.

For their possessions had become too great for them to live together, and the countryside through which they were traveling couldn't support so much livestock.

So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his household and ruler over the whole land of Egypt.

Tell my father how honored I am in Egypt and everything you have seen, and quickly bring my father down here!"

"When ADONAI your God has brought you into the land he swore to your ancestors Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov that he would give you - cities great and prosperous, which you didn't build;

houses full of all sorts of good things, which you didn't fill; water cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig; vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant - and you have eaten your fill;

then be careful not to forget ADONAI, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves.

So you will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless ADONAI your God for the good land he has given you.

"Be careful not to forget ADONAI your God by not obeying his mitzvot, rulings and regulations that I am giving you today.

Otherwise, after you have eaten and are satisfied, built fine houses and lived in them,

and increased your herds, flocks, silver, gold and everything else you own,

you will become proud-hearted. Forgetting ADONAI your God - who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves;

who led you through the vast and fearsome desert, with its poisonous snakes, scorpions and waterless, thirsty ground; who brought water out of flint rock for you;

who fed you in the desert with man, unknown to your ancestors; all the while humbling and testing you in order to do you good in the end -

you will think to yourself, 'My own power and the strength of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.'

No, you are to remember ADONAI your God, because it is he who is giving you the power to get wealth, in order to confirm his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as is happening even today.

For when I have brought them into the land I swore to their ancestors, flowing with milk and honey; and they have eaten their fill, grown fat and turned to other gods, serving them and despising me, and broken my covenant;

"But Yeshurun grew fat and kicked (you grew fat, thick, gross!). He abandoned God his Maker; he scorned the Rock, his salvation.