Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
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Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
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Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
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Proverbs 10:15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Psalms 52:5
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 52:6
The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
Psalms 52:7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
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1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Proverbs 11:28
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
Mark 10:24
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!
Job 31:28
this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have denied the God who is above.
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Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Ezekiel 28:4
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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Psalms 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
Proverbs 11:4
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
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Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
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Judges 9:51
But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
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Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
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Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
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Isaiah 26:1
In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
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Job 22:25
The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
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Psalms 49:7
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
Psalms 49:8
For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
Psalms 49:9
that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
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Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
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Proverbs 23:4
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
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Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
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1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
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