Bible Verses About Riches

In time the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Avraham’s side; the rich man also died and was buried.

“In Sh’ol, where he was in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Avraham far away with El‘azar at his side.

He called out, ‘Father Avraham, take pity on me, and send El‘azar just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, because I’m in agony in this fire!’

However, Avraham said, ‘Son, remember that when you were alive, you got the good things while he got the bad; but now he gets his consolation here, while you are the one in agony.

One of the leaders asked him, “Good rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?”

Yeshua said to him, “Why are you calling me good? No one is good but God!

You know the mitzvot — ‘Don’t commit adultery, don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t give false testimony, honor your father and mother, . . .’”

He replied, “I have kept all these since I was a boy.”

On hearing this Yeshua said to him, “There is one thing you still lack. Sell whatever you have, distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!”

But when the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was very rich.

Yeshua looked at him and said, “How hard it is for people with wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!

It’s easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!”

when a man named Zakkai appeared who was a chief tax-collector and a wealthy man.

Philip found Natan’el and told him, “We’ve found the one that Moshe wrote about in the Torah, also the Prophets — it’s Yeshua Ben-Yosef from Natzeret!”

(which means “gazelle”); she was always doing tzedakah and other good deeds.

It is his doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as well!

To me, the least important of all God’s holy people, was given this privilege of announcing to the Gentiles the Good News of the Messiah’s unfathomable riches,

Not only that, but I consider everything a disadvantage in comparison with the supreme value of knowing the Messiah Yeshua as my Lord. It was because of him that I gave up everything and regard it all as garbage, in order to gain the Messiah

It is in him that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

he is swollen with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has a morbid desire for controversies and word-battles, out of which come jealousy, dissension, insults, evil suspicions,

and constant wrangling among people whose minds no longer function properly and who have been deprived of the truth, so that they imagine that religion is a road to riches.

Now true religion does bring great riches, but only to those who are content with what they have.

For we have brought nothing into the world; and we can take nothing out of it;

so if we have food and clothing, we will be satisfied with these.

Furthermore, those whose goal is to be rich fall into temptation; they get trapped in many foolish and hurtful ambitions which plunge them into ruin and destruction.