Mark 4:19
New King James Version
19 and the (A)cares of this world, (B)the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Read full chapter
1 Timothy 6:9-10
New King James Version
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Read full chapter
1 John 2:15-17
New King James Version
Do Not Love the World
15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, (C)the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And (D)the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Read full chapter
1 Timothy 6:17
New King James Version
Instructions to the Rich
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain (A)riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things (B)to enjoy.
Read full chapter
1 Peter 4:2-3
New King James Version
2 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, (A)but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past [a]lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Peter 4:3 NU time
Philippians 4:6
New King James Version
6 (A)Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with (B)thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
Read full chapter
Matthew 19:23
New King James Version
With God All Things Are Possible(A)
23 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that (B)it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Read full chapter
John 15:2
New King James Version
2 (A)Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He [a]takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear (B)more fruit.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- John 15:2 Or lifts up
Luke 21:34
New King James Version
The Importance of Watching(A)
34 “But (B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with [a]carousing, drunkenness, and (C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Luke 21:34 dissipation
Luke 12:29-30
New King James Version
29 “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. 30 For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father (A)knows that you need these things.
Read full chapter
Luke 12:17-21
New King James Version
17 And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ 18 So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, (A)“Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; (B)eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night (C)your soul will be required of you; (D)then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, (E)and is not rich toward God.”
Read full chapter
Luke 10:41
New King James Version
41 And [a]Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Luke 10:41 NU the Lord
Isaiah 5:4
New King James Version
4 What more could have been done to My vineyard
That I have not done in (A)it?
Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,
Did it bring forth wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:2
New King James Version
2 He dug it up and cleared out its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
He built a tower in its midst,
And also [a]made a winepress in it;
(A)So He expected it to bring forth good grapes,
But it brought forth wild grapes.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:2 Lit. hewed out
Ecclesiastes 5:10-16
New King James Version
10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.
11 When goods increase,
They increase who eat them;
So what profit have the owners
Except to see them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.
13 (A)There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
14 But those riches perish through [a]misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15 (B)As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.
16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And (C)what profit has he (D)who has labored for the wind?
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 Lit. bad business
Ecclesiastes 4:8
New King James Version
8 There is one alone, without [a]companion:
He has neither son nor brother.
Yet there is no end to all his labors,
Nor is his (A)eye satisfied with riches.
But (B)he never asks,
“For whom do I toil and deprive myself of (C)good?”
This also is vanity and a [b]grave misfortune.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 Lit. a second
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 Lit. evil task
Proverbs 23:5
New King James Version
5 [a]Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:5 Lit. Will you cause your eyes to fly upon it and it is not?
Jude 12
New King James Version
Apostates Depraved and Doomed
12 These are [a]spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried [b]about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;
Read full chapter
2 Peter 1:8
New King James Version
8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither [a]barren (A)nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Peter 1:8 useless
Hebrews 6:7-8
New King James Version
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, (A)receives blessing from God; 8 (B)but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
Read full chapter
2 Timothy 4:10
New King James Version
10 for (A)Demas has forsaken me, (B)having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.
Read full chapter
Luke 14:18-20
New King James Version
18 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ 20 Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
Read full chapter
Matthew 3:10
New King James Version
10 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. (A)Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Read full chapterScripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
