The True 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 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

Temporary Proverbs 27:24

Uncertain 1 Timothy 6:17

Unsatisfying Ecclesiastes 4:8, 5:10

Corruptible James 5:2, 1 Peter 1:18

Fleeting Proverbs 23:5, Revelation 18:16, 17

Deceitful Matthew 13:22

Liable to be stolen Matthew 6:19

Perishable Jeremiah 48:36

Thick clay Habakkuk 2:6

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

Violence Micah 6:12

Oppression James 2:6

Fraud James 5:4

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

Swallow down Job 20:15

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

Trust in Proverbs 11:28

Receive their consolation Luke 6:24

Abuse James 5:1, 5

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

Abram Genesis 13:2

Lot Genesis 13:5, 6

Isaac Genesis 26:13, 14

Jacob Genesis 32:5, 10

Joseph Genesis 45:8, 13

Boaz Ruth 2:1

Barzillai 2 Samuel 19:32

Shunammite 2 Kings 4:8

David 1 Chronicles 29:28

Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 17:5

Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 32:27-29

Job Job 1:3

Joseph of Arimathea Matthew 27:57

Zacchaeus Luke 19:2

Dorcas Acts 9:36

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

Laban Genesis 30:30

Esau Genesis 36:7

Nabal 1 Samuel 25:2

Haman Esther 5:11

Ammonites Jeremiah 49:4

People of Tyre Ezekiel 28:5

Young man Matthew 19:22