Quotes about Wealth
Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
- Mark 10:21
But the man was saddened by these words and went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
- Mark 10:22
Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
- Mark 10:23
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Mark 10:25
will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
- Mark 10:30
As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.
- Mark 12:41
Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.
- Mark 12:42
Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.
- Mark 12:43
For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
- Mark 12:44
It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.
- Mark 14:5
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- Luke 1:53
John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”
- Luke 3:11