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“Do
not weary yourself to gain wealth, cease from your consideration of it. When
you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings
like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.”
Proverbs
23:4-5
“Better
is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.”
Psalms 37:16
“Listen,
my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in
faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?”
James 2:5
“One
hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after
wind.”
Ecclesiastes 4:6
“Because
of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, now
I will rise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”
Psalm 12:5
“He
who mocks the poor taunts his maker; He who rejoices at calamity will not go
unpunished.”
Proverbs 17:5
“Do
not rob the poor because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate.”
Proverbs 22:22
“Instruct
those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their
hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all
things to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be
generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good
foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life
indeed.”
1 Timothy 6:17-19
“The
sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the
full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep. “There is a grievous
evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to
his hurt. When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had
fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12-14
“But
you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to
make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers,
as it is this day.”
Deuteronomy 8:18
“For
the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted perish
forever.”
Psalm 9:18
“But
He saves from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the
mighty. So the helpless has hope, and unrighteousness must shut its mouth.”
Job 5:15-16
“He
who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like the
green leaf.”
Proverbs 11:28
“A
faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich will
not go unpunished.”
Proverbs 28:20
“Riches
do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.”
Proverbs 11:4
"My
eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your
ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the
LORD, do the smiting.”
Ezekiel 7:9
“There
is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor,
but has great wealth.”
Proverbs 13:7
“He
who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance
with its income.”
Ecclesiastes 5:10
“He
who oppresses the poor to make more for himself or who gives to the rich, will
only come to poverty.”
Proverbs 22:16
“A man
with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not know that want will come
upon him.”
Proverbs 28:22
“The
rich and the poor have a common bond, the LORD is the maker of them all.”
Proverbs 22:2
“He
delivers the afflicted in their affliction, and opens their ear in time of
oppression.”
Job 36:15
“Better
is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and turmoil with it.”
Proverbs 15:16
“Better
is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is crooked though he be
rich.”
Proverbs 28:6
“How blessed is he who
considers the helpless; the LORD will deliver him in a day of trouble.”
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