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Top 25 Bible Verses About Rich People (KJV)

This is a hand-curated and ranked list of 25 of the most relevant Bible verses about Rich People (KJV). Verses are ranked by number of votes.

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Matthew 6:24

#1
293 votes
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

James 5:1-6

#2
259 votes
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Hebrews 13:5

#3
256 votes
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Luke 18:25

#4
227 votes
25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
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Luke 12:33

#6
217 votes
33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

1 Timothy 6:10

#7
195 votes
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Matthew 6:19-21

#8
172 votes
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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1 Timothy 6:17

#10
170 votes
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Mark 12:41-44

#11
170 votes
41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. 42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

Proverbs 19:17

#12
161 votes
17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
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Luke 6:24

#14
152 votes
24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

Proverbs 23:4-5

#15
147 votes
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

2 Corinthians 8:9

#16
144 votes
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
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Revelation 3:17

#18
141 votes
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Acts 20:35

#19
138 votes
35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Proverbs 14:31

#20
132 votes
31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
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1 Timothy 6:9

#22
131 votes
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

1 Timothy 6:17-19

#23
129 votes
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Luke 6:20

#24
117 votes
20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
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1 Timothy 6:18

#26
116 votes
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

2 Corinthians 9:7

#27
105 votes
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

James 1:11

#28
103 votes
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Proverbs 22:9

#29
102 votes
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Proverbs 22:2

#30
100 votes
2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 13:11

#31
99 votes
11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
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