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 service 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

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RICHES. → General scriptures concerning De 6:10-12; 8:10-18; 31:20; 32:15; 1Sa 2:7; Ps 37:16; Pr 10:2,22; 11:4,28; 13:7,8; 14:24; 15:6,16,17; 16:8; 19:4; 21:6; 23:4,5; 27:23,24; 28:8,20,22; 30:8,9; Ec 5:9-20; 6:1,2; 7:11,12; 10:19; Isa 5:8; Jer 48:36; Ho 12:8; Mt 6:19-21; 13:22; 19:16-29; Mr 4:19; 10:17-25; Lu 12:15; 18:18-25; 1Ti 6:4-11,17-19; Jas 2:6,7; 5:1-5; 1Jo 3:17 → FIGURATIVE Re 3:18
* See COVETOUSNESS
* See RICH

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riches. Riches, n. plenty of money or possessions

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Rich″es (?), n. pl. [[OE. richesse, F. richesse, from riche rich, of German origin. See Rich,a.]] 1. 1. That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence.
Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke. 2. 2. That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like.
The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. ☞ Richesse, the older form of this word, was in the singular number. The form riches, however, is plural in appearance, and has now come to be used as a plural. Against the richesses of this world shall they have misease of poverty. Chaucer. In one hour so great riches is come to nought. Rev. xviii. 17. And for that riches where is my deserving? Shak. Syn. — Wealth; opulence; affluence; wealthiness; richness; plenty; abundance.