Riches
Riches [N] [B]
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Bibliography InformationTorrey, R.A., Reverand. "Entry for 'Riches'". "The New Topical Text Book".. 1897.
- The true riches
Ephesians 3:8 ; 1 Corinthians 1:30 ; Colossians 2:3 ; 1 Peter 2:7 - God gives
1 Samuel 2:7 ; Ecclesiastes 5:19 - To God belongs this worlds riches
Haggai 2:8 - God gives power to obtain
Deuteronomy 8:18 - The blessing of the Lord brings
Proverbs 10:22 - Give worldly power
Proverbs 22:7 - DESCRIBED AS
- Temporary
Proverbs 27:24
- Uncertain
1 Timothy 6:17
- Unsatisfying
Ecclesiastes 4:8 ; 5:10
- Corruptible
James 5:2 ; 1 Peter 1:18
- Fleeting
Proverbs 23:5 ; Revelation 18:16 Revelation 18:17
- Deceitful
Matthew 13:22
- Liable to be stolen
Matthew 6:19
- Perishable
Jeremiah 48:36
- Thick clay
Habakkuk 2:6
- Temporary
- Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel
Mark 10:23-25 - Deceitfulness of, chokes the word
Matthew 13:22 - The love of, the root of all evil
1 Timothy 6:10 - OFTEN LEAD TO
- Pride
Ezekiel 28:5 ; Hosea 12:8
- Forgetting God
Deuteronomy 8:13 Deuteronomy 8:14
- Denying God
Proverbs 30:8 Proverbs 30:9
- Forsaking God
Deuteronomy 32:15
- Rebelling against God
Nehemiah 9:25 Nehemiah 9:26
- Rejecting Christ
Matthew 19:22 ; 10:22
- Self-sufficiency
Proverbs 28:11
- Anxiety
Ecclesiastes 5:12
- An overbearing spirit
Proverbs 18:23
- Violence
Micah 6:12
- Oppression
James 2:6
- Fraud
James 5:4
- Sensual indulgence
Luke 16:19 ; James 5:5
- Pride
- Life consists not in abundance of
Luke 12:15 - Be not over-anxious for
Proverbs 30:8 - Labour not for
Proverbs 23:4 - THEY WHO COVET
- Fall into temptation and a snare
1 Timothy 6:9
- Fall into hurtful lusts
1 Timothy 6:9
- Err from the faith
1 Timothy 6:10
- Use unlawful means to acquire
Proverbs 28:20
- Bring trouble on themselves
1 Timothy 6:10
- Bring trouble on their families
Proverbs 15:27
- Fall into temptation and a snare
- Profit not in the day of wrath
Proverbs 11:4 - Cannot secure prosperity
James 1:11 - Cannot redeem the soul
Psalms 49:6-9 ; 1 Peter 1:18 - Cannot deliver in the day of Gods wrath
Zephaniah 1:18 ; Revelation 6:15-17 - THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD
- Ascribe them to God
1 Chronicles 29:12
- Not trust in them
Job 31:24 ; 1 Timothy 6:17
- Not set the heart on them
Psalms 62:10
- Not boast of obtaining them
Deuteronomy 8:17
- Not glory in them
Jeremiah 9:23
- Not hoard them up
Matthew 6:19
- Devote them to Gods service
1 Chronicles 29:3 ; Mark 12:42-44
- Give of them to the poor
Matthew 19:21 ; 1 John 3:17
- Use them in promoting the salvation of others
Luke 16:9
- Be liberal in all things
1 Timothy 6:18
- Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give
1 Chronicles 29:14
- Not to be high-minded
1 Timothy 6:17
- When converted, rejoice in being humbled
James 1:9 James 1:10
- Ascribe them to God
- Heavenly treasures superior to
Matthew 6:19 Matthew 6:20 - Of the wicked laid up for the just
Proverbs 13:22 - THE WICKED
- Often increase in
Psalms 73:12
- Often spend their day in
Job 21:13
- Swallow down
Job 20:15
- Trust in the abundance of
Psalms 52:7
- Heap up
Job 27:16 ; Psalms 39:6 ; Ecclesiastes 2:26
- Keep, to their hurt
Ecclesiastes 5:13
- Boast themselves in
Psalms 49:6 ; 52:7
- Profit not by
Proverbs 11:4 ; 13:7 ; Ecclesiastes 5:11
- Have trouble with
Proverbs 15:6 ; 1 Timothy 6:9 1 Timothy 6:10
- Must leave, to others
Psalms 49:10
- Often increase in
- Vanity of heaping up
Psalms 39:6 ; Ecclesiastes 5:10 Ecclesiastes 5:11 - Guilt of trusting in
Job 31:24 Job 31:28 ; Ezekiel 28:4 Ezekiel 28:5 Ezekiel 28:8 - Guilt of rejoicing in
Job 31:25 Job 31:28 - DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO
- Get, by vanity
Proverbs 13:11 ; 21:6
- Get, unlawfully
Jeremiah 17:11
- Increase, by oppression
Proverbs 22:16 ; Habakkuk 2:6-8 ; Micah 2:2 Micah 2:3
- Hoard up
Ecclesiastes 5:13 Ecclesiastes 5:14 ; James 5:3
- Trust in
Proverbs 11:28
- Receive their consolation
Luke 6:24
- Spend, upon their appetite
Job 20:15-17
- Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated
Luke 12:16-21
- Get, by vanity
- Danger of misusing-Illustrated
Luke 16:19-25 - Examples of saints possessing
- Abram
Genesis 13:2
- Isaac
Genesis 26:13 Genesis 26:14
- Jacob
Genesis 32:5 Genesis 32:10
- Joseph
Genesis 45:8 Genesis 45:13
- Boaz
Ruth 2:1
- Barzillai
2 Samuel 19:32
- Shunammite
2 Kings 4:8
- David
1 Chronicles 29:28
- Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 17:5
- Hezekiah
2 Chronicles 32:27-29
- Job
Job 1:3
- Joseph of Arimathea
Matthew 27:57
- Zacchaeus
Luke 19:2
- Dorcas
Acts 9:36
- Abram
- Examples of those truly rich
Matthew 5:8 ; 8:10 ; Matthew 13:45 Matthew 13:46 ; Luke 10:42 ; John 1:45 ; Philippians 3:8 ; James 2:5 ; 1 Peter 2:7 ; Revelation 3:18 - Examples of wicked men possessing
- Laban
Genesis 30:30
- Esau
Genesis 36:7
- Nabal
1 Samuel 25:2
- Haman
Esther 5:11
- Ammonites
Jeremiah 49:4
- People of Tyre
Ezekiel 28:5
- Young man
Matthew 19:22
- Laban
[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
[B] indicates this entry was also found in Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
Bibliography InformationTorrey, R.A., Reverand. "Entry for 'Riches'". "The New Topical Text Book".