Quotes about Wealth
Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
- Luke 6:20
But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
- Luke 6:24
Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
- Luke 6:25
“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
- Luke 7:41
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- Luke 9:25
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
- Luke 12:15
Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
- Luke 12:16
So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
- Luke 12:17
Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
- Luke 12:18
Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
- Luke 12:19
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Luke 12:20
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
- Luke 12:21