Quotes about Wealth
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
— Hosea 12:8
For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.
— Joel 3:5
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
— Amos 4:1
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
— Amos 5:11
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
— Amos 6:4
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
— Obadiah 1:6
On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
— Obadiah 1:11
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
— Micah 2:2
Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
— Micah 4:13
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
— Micah 6:12
You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
— Micah 6:14
“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
— Nahum 2:9