Proverbs 10:15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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Proverbs 10:15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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Genesis 31:1
Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”
Deuteronomy 32:31
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
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.
Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
Psalms 62:11
God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Proverbs 3:14
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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.
Proverbs 30:9
lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
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.
Luke 12:15
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Judges 5:21
The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
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Job 6:15
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
Job 6:16
which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.
Job 6:17
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Job 6:18
The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.
Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job 6:20
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
Job 19:15
Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
Job 19:17
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
Job 30:10
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
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Job 15:27
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
Job 15:31
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
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Psalms 8:3
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,
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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
Proverbs 22:23
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Proverbs 1:8
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;
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Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
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Proverbs 10:17
He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
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Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
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Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
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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Proverbs 21:22
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.
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Proverbs 24:5
A wise man has great power. A knowledgeable man increases strength,
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Jeremiah 48:7
For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah 48:39
“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”
Jeremiah 49:4
Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’
Ezekiel 28:4
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.
Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
Ezekiel 28:6
“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
Ezekiel 28:7
therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.
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Amos 3:11
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
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Proverbs 13:7
There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Philippians 4:12
I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
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