Proverbs 15:6
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6 In the house of the righteous there is much treasure,
but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.
Proverbs 8:21
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21 endowing with wealth those who love me
and filling their treasuries.
Proverbs 21:20
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- 21.20 Gk: Heb and oil
Proverbs 10:22
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22 The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
and toil adds nothing to it.(A)
Psalm 112:3
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3 Wealth and riches are in their houses,
and their righteousness endures forever.
Proverbs 16:8
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8 Better is a little with righteousness
than large income with injustice.
Hebrews 11:26
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26 He considered abuse suffered for the Christ[a] to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.
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- 11.26 Or the Messiah
Ecclesiastes 4:6
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6 Better is a handful with quiet
than two handfuls with toil
and a chasing after wind.(A)
Proverbs 15:16
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16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
than great treasure and trouble with it.(A)
Proverbs 13:22
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22 The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children,
but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.(A)
Psalm 37:16
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16 Better is a little that the righteous person has
than the abundance of many wicked.(A)
Job 20:19-23
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19 For they have crushed and abandoned the poor;
they have seized a house that they did not build.(A)
20 “For they knew no quiet in their bellies;
in their greed they let nothing escape.(B)
21 There was nothing left after they had eaten;
therefore their prosperity will not endure.(C)
22 In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
all the force of misery will come upon them.
23 To fill their belly to the full,
God[a] will send his fierce anger into them
and rain it upon them as their food.(D)
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- 20.23 Heb he
James 5:1-3
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Warning to Rich Oppressors
5 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.(A) 3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure[a] during the last days.
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- 5.3 Or will eat your flesh, since you have stored up fire
Ecclesiastes 5:10-14
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10 The lover of money will not be satisfied with money, nor the lover of wealth with gain. This also is vanity.(A)
11 When goods increase, those who eat them increase, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
12 Sweet is the sleep of laborers, whether they eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not let them sleep.(B)
13 There is a grievous ill that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owners to their hurt,(C) 14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands.
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