Bible Verses About Riches

`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,

for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

And Jesus having heard, did wonder, and said to those following, `Verily I say to you, not even in Israel so great faith have I found;

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

`And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

`Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,

who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it.

And lo, one having come near, said to him, `Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'

And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One--God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.'

He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

The young man saith to him, `All these did I keep from my youth; what yet do I lack?'

Jesus said to him, `If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'

And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;

and Jesus said to his disciples, `Verily I say to you, that hardly shall a rich man enter into the reign of the heavens;

and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

And his disciples having heard, were amazed exceedingly, saying, `Who, then, is able to be saved?'

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

Then Peter answering said to him, `Lo, we did leave all, and follow thee, what then shall we have?'

And Jesus said to them, `Verily I say to you, that ye who did follow me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man may sit upon a throne of his glory, shall sit--ye also--upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel;

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus,

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.