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Proverbs 10:15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
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Psalms 52:5-7
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,“ Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
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Psalms 49:6-9
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
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Proverbs 11:4
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Luke 12:19-21
I will tell my soul,“ Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’“ But God said to him,‘ You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared— whose will they be?’So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
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Deuteronomy 32:31
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
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Psalms 62:10-11
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
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Job 31:24-25
“ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold,‘ You are my confidence;’If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;