Bible Verses About Rich People
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for rich people, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 32,356 votes, led by Matthew 6:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Rich People
Matthew 6:24880 votes
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.
Hebrews 13:5820 votes
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.
James 5:1-6805 votes
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Luke 18:25689 votes
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.
Luke 12:33683 votes
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 6:10659 votes
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.
1 Timothy 6:17634 votes
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;
Matthew 6:19-21601 votes
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Proverbs 19:17566 votes
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Mark 12:41-44545 votes
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.
Luke 6:24535 votes
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
1 Timothy 6:9514 votes
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.
2 Corinthians 8:9507 votes
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.
Revelation 3:17502 votes
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:
Proverbs 23:4-5491 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Acts 20:35462 votes
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.
1 Timothy 6:18456 votes
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
1 Timothy 6:17-19451 votes
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;
Luke 6:20426 votes
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
James 1:11409 votes
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 14:31375 votes
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 13:11326 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Proverbs 22:2325 votes
The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
2 Corinthians 9:7325 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Luke 12:15322 votes
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
What does the Bible say about rich people?
Readers most often cite Matthew 6:24 on the subject of rich people. Across 32,356 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:5, James 5:1-6, Luke 18:25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.