Bible Verses About Riches: General references

"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.

ADONAI makes poor, and he makes rich; he humbles, and he exalts.

Better the little that the righteous has than the wealth of all the wicked.

No good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness rescues from death.

The blessing of ADONAI is what makes people rich, and he doesn't mix sorrow with it.

On the day of wrath, wealth doesn't help; but righteousness rescues from death.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like sprouting leaves.

There are those with nothing who pretend they are rich, also those with great wealth who pretend they are poor.

The rich man may have to ransom his life, but a poor man gets no threats.

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is just that - folly.

The home of the righteous is a storehouse of treasure, but the earnings of the wicked bring trouble.

Better little with the fear of ADONAI than great wealth coupled with worry.