Bible on Wealth

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.