Dictionary entry

Riches

R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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