Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Wealth and Riches

"Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, . . . or lest I be poor, and steal." Proverbs 30:8, 9

The false security of wealth:

"The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit." Proverbs 18:11

The instability of wealth:

"Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." Proverbs 23:5

"For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?" Proverbs 27:24

"The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just." Proverbs 13:22

"The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations. . . . Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; for when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him." Psalm 49:10-17

"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days." James 5:1-3

The undesirability of wealth:

"Labor not to be rich." Proverbs 23:4

"How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!" Proverbs 16:16

"Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right." Proverbs 16:8

"Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith." Proverbs 15:16

"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?" Ecclesiastes 5:10, 11

The virtue of contentment:

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Hebrews 13:5

"Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness." 1 Timothy 6:6-11

The results of greed:

"He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live." Proverbs 15:27

Trying to make money fast:

"He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." Proverbs 28:20

"He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him." Proverbs 28:22

Trust in God to provide:

"But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth." Deuteronomy 8:18

True riches:

"There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches." Proverbs 13:7

"In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble." Proverbs 15:6

"When God gave His Son to our world, He endowed human beings with imperishable riches--riches compared with which the treasured wealth of men since the world began is nothingness. Christ came to the earth and stood before the children of men with the hoarded love of eternity, and this is the treasure that, through our connection with Him, we are to receive, to reveal, and to impart." MH 37

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