Bible Concordances
Riches
Torrey's Topical Textbook
- 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 world's 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
- Unsatisfying
Ecclesiastes 4:8; 5:10
- Corruptible
James 5:2; 1 Peter 1:18
- Fleeting
Proverbs 23:5; Revelation 18:16,17
- Liable to be stolen
Matthew 6:19
- Perishable
Jeremiah 48:36
- 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 8:13,14
- Denying God
Proverbs 30:8,9
- Forsaking God
Deuteronomy 32:15
- Rebelling against God
Nehemiah 9:25,26
- Rejecting Christ
Matthew 19:22; 10:22
- Self-sufficiency
Proverbs 28:11
- Anxiety
Ecclesiastes 5:12
- An overbearing spirit
Proverbs 18:23
- Sensual indulgence
Luke 16:19; James 5:5
- 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
- Profit not in the day of wrath
Proverbs 11:4
- Cannot secure prosperity
James 1:11
- Cannot redeem the soul
Psalm 49:6-9; 1 Peter 1:18
- Cannot deliver in the day of God's 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
Psalm 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 God's 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 1:9,10
- Heavenly treasures superior to
Matthew 6:19,20
- Of the wicked laid up for the just
Proverbs 13:22
- THE WICKED
- Often increase in
Psalm 73:12
- Often spend their day in
Job 21:13
- Trust in the abundance of
Psalm 52:7
- Heap up
Job 27:16; Psalm 39:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26
- Keep, to their hurt
Ecclesiastes 5:13
- Boast themselves in
Psalm 49:6; 52:7
- Profit not by
Proverbs 11:4; 13:7; Ecclesiastes 5:11
- Have trouble with
Proverbs 15:6; 1 Timothy 6:9,10
- Must leave, to others
Psalm 49:10
- Vanity of heaping up
Psalm 39:6; Ecclesiastes 5:10,11
- Guilt of trusting in
Job 31:24,28; Ezekiel 28:4,5,8
- Guilt of rejoicing in
Job 31:25,28
- 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 2:2,3
- Hoard up
Ecclesiastes 5:13,14; James 5:3
- 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
- Danger of misusing-Illustrated
Luke 16:19-25
- Examples of saints possessing
- Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 17:5
- Hezekiah
2 Chronicles 32:27-29
- Joseph of Arimathea
Matthew 27:57
- Examples of those truly rich
Matthew 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Luke 10:42; John 1:45; Philippians 3:8; James 2:5; 1 Peter 2:7; Revelation 3:18
- Examples of wicked men possessing
- People of Tyre
Ezekiel 28:5
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Bibliography Information
Torrey, Reuben Archer. Entry for 'Riches'. Torrey's Topical Textbook. https://www.studylight.org/​concordances/​eng/​ttt/​r/riches.html. 1897.