
“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 7:19
“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.” Psalm 41:1
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