Quotes about Wealth
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 5:11
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
- Amos 6:4
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
- Obadiah 1:6
On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
- Obadiah 1:11
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- Micah 2:2
Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
- Micah 4:13
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
- Micah 6:12
You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
- Micah 6:14
“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
- Nahum 2:9
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
- Habakkuk 1:16
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
- Habakkuk 2:5
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Habakkuk 2:9