RICHES: - The true riches Eph 3:8; 1Co 1:30; Col 2:3; 1Pe 2:7 - God gives 1Sa 2:7; Ec 5:19 - To God belongs this world's riches Hag 2:8 - God gives power to obtain De 8:18 - The blessing of the Lord brings Pr 10:22 - Give worldly power Pr 22:7 - DESCRIBED AS . Temporary Pr 27:24 . Uncertain 1Ti 6:17 . Unsatisfying Ec 4:8; 5:10 . Corruptible Jas 5:2; 1Pe 1:18 . Fleeting Pr 23:5; Re 18:16,17 . Deceitful Mt 13:22 . Liable to be stolen Mt 6:19 . Perishable Jer 48:36 . Thick clay Hab 2:6 - Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel Mr 10:23-25 - Deceitfulness of, chokes the word Mt 13:22 - The love of, the root of all evil 1Ti 6:10 - OFTEN LEAD TO . Pride Eze 28:5; Ho 12:8 . Forgetting God De 8:13,14 . Denying God Pr 30:8,9 . Forsaking God De 32:15 . Rebelling against God Ne 9:25,26 . Rejecting Christ Mt 19:22; 10:22 . Self-sufficiency Pr 28:11 . Anxiety Ec 5:12 . An overbearing spirit Pr 18:23 . Violence Mic 6:12 . Oppression Jas 2:6 . Fraud Jas 5:4 . Sensual indulgence Lu 16:19; Jas 5:5 - Life consists not in abundance of Lu 12:15 - Be not over-anxious for Pr 30:8 - Labour not for Pr 23:4 - THEY WHO COVET . Fall into temptation and a snare 1Ti 6:9 . Fall into hurtful lusts 1Ti 6:9 . Err from the faith 1Ti 6:10 . Use unlawful means to acquire Pr 28:20 . Bring trouble on themselves 1Ti 6:10 . Bring trouble on their families Pr 15:27 - Profit not in the day of wrath Pr 11:4 - Cannot secure prosperity Jas 1:11 - Cannot redeem the soul Ps 49:6-9; 1Pe 1:18 - Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath Zep 1:18; Re 6:15-17 - THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD . Ascribe them to God 1Ch 29:12 . Not trust in them Job 31:24; 1Ti 6:17 . Not set the heart on them Ps 62:10 . Not boast of obtaining them De 8:17 . Not glory in them Jer 9:23 . Not hoard them up Mt 6:19 . Devote them to God's s
ervice 1Ch 29:3; Mr 12:42-44 . Give of them to the poor Mt 19:21; 1Jo 3:17 . Use them in promoting the salvation of others Lu 16:9 . Be liberal in all things 1Ti 6:18 . Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give 1Ch 29:14 . Not to be high-minded 1Ti 6:17 . When converted, rejoice in being humbled Jas 1:9,10 - Heavenly treasures superior to Mt 6:19,20 - Of the wicked laid up for the just Pr 13:22 - THE WICKED . Often increase in Ps 73:12 . Often spend their day in Job 21:13 . Swallow down Job 20:15 . Trust in the abundance of Ps 52:7 . Heap up Job 27:16; Ps 39:6; Ec 2:26 . Keep, to their hurt Ec 5:13 . Boast themselves in Ps 49:6; 52:7 . Profit not by Pr 11:4; 13:7; Ec 5:11 . Have trouble with Pr 15:6; 1Ti 6:9,10 . Must leave, to others Ps 49:10 - Vanity of heaping up Ps 39:6; Ec 5:10,11 - Guilt of trusting in Job 31:24,28; Eze 28:4,5,8 - Guilt of rejoicing in Job 31:25,28 - DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO . Get, by vanity Pr 13:11; 21:6 . Get, unlawfully Jer 17:11 . Increase, by oppression Pr 22:16; Hab 2:6-8; Mic 2:2,3 . Hoard up Ec 5:13,14; Jas 5:3 . Trust in Pr 11:28 . Receive their consolation Lu 6:24 . Abuse Jas 5:1,5 . Spend, upon their appetite Job 20:15-17 . Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated Lu 12:16-21 - Danger of misusing-Illustrated Lu 16:19-25 - Examples of saints possessing . Abram Ge 13:2 . Lot Ge 13:5,6 . Isaac Ge 26:13,14 . Jacob Ge 32:5,10 . Joseph Ge 45:8,13 . Boaz Ru 2:1 . Barzillai 2Sa 19:32 . Shunammite 2Ki 4:8 . David 1Ch 29:28 . Jehoshaphat 2Ch 17:5 . Hezekiah 2Ch 32:27-29 . Job Job 1:3 . Joseph of Arimathea Mt 27:57 . Zacchaeus Lu 19:2 . Dorcas Ac 9:36 - Examples of those truly rich Mt 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Lu 10:42; Joh 1:45; Php 3:8; Jas 2:5; 1Pe 2:7; Re 3:18 - Examples of wicked men possessing . Laban Ge 30:30 . Esau Ge 36:7 . Nabal
1Sa 25:2 . Haman Es 5:11 . Ammonites Jer 49:4 . People of Tyre Eze 28:5 . Young man Mt 19:22