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Proverbs 10:15
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. (niv)
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Ecclesiastes 7:12
Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it. (niv)
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Psalms 52:5-7
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at you, saying,“ Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!” (niv)
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Psalms 49:6-9
those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them—the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough—so that they should live on forever and not see decay. (niv)
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Proverbs 11:4
Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. (niv)
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Luke 12:19-21
And I’ll say to myself,“ You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’“ But God said to him,‘ You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’“ This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.” (niv)
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Deuteronomy 32:31
For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede. (niv)
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Psalms 62:10-11
Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard:“ Power belongs to you, God, (niv)
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Job 31:24-25
“ If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold,‘ You are my security,’if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained, (niv)