Bible Verses About Riches

"How blessed are the pure in heart! for they will see God.

"Do not store up for yourselves wealth here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and burglars break in and steal.

Instead, store up for yourselves wealth in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and burglars do not break in or steal.

For where your wealth is, there your heart will be also.

On hearing this Yeshua was amazed and said to the people following him, "Yes! I tell you, I have not found anyone in Isra'el with such trust!

Everyone will hate you because of me, but whoever holds out till the end will be preserved from harm.

Now the seed sown among thorns stands for someone who hears the message, but it is choked by the worries of the world and the deceitful glamor of wealth, so that it produces nothing.

"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant on the lookout for fine pearls.

On finding one very valuable pearl he went away, sold everything he owned and bought it.

A man approached Yeshua and said, "Rabbi, what good thing should I do in order to have eternal life?" He said to him,

"Why are you asking me about good? There is One who is good! But if you want to obtain eternal life, observe the mitzvot."

The man asked him, "Which ones?" and Yeshua said, "Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't give false testimony

honor father and mother and love your neighbor as yourself."

The young man said to him, "I have kept all these; where do I still fall short?"

Yeshua said to him, "If you are serious about reaching the goal, go and sell your possessions, give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!"

But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was wealthy.

Then Yeshua said to his talmidim, "Yes. I tell you that it will be very hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Furthermore, I tell you that it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

When the talmidim heard this they were utterly amazed. "Then who," they asked, "can be saved?"

Yeshua looked at them and said, "Humanly, this is impossible; but with God everything is possible."

Kefa replied, "Look, we have left everything and followed you. So what will we have?"

Yeshua said to them, "Yes. I tell you that in the regenerated world, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Isra'el.

Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times more, and he will obtain eternal life.

Towards evening, there came a wealthy man from Ramatayim named Yosef, who was himself a talmid of Yeshua.

but the worries of the world, the deceitful glamor of wealth and all the other kinds of desires push in and choke the message; so that it produces nothing.