Bible Verses About The Rich

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 as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, `Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?'

And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One--God;

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

And he answering said to him, `Teacher, all these did I keep from my youth.'

And Jesus having looked upon him, did love him, and said to him, `One thing thou dost lack; go away, whatever thou hast--sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me, having taken up the cross.'

And he--gloomy at the word--went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions.

And Jesus having looked round, saith to his disciples, `How hardly shall they who have riches enter into the reign of God!'

And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, `Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God!

It is easier for a camel through the eye of the needle to enter, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying unto themselves, `And who is able to be saved?'

And Jesus, having looked upon them, saith, `With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.'

`But woe to you--the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

`Woe to you who have been filled--because ye shall hunger. `Woe to you who are laughing now--because ye shall mourn and weep.

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits?

and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

`And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare--to whom shall they be?

so is he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,