Psalms 49:6

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Why should I fear in evil days, when iniquity surrounds me, at my heels?

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  • Ps 52:7 : 7 But God will tear you down forever; He will snatch and uproot you from your tent and dislodge you from the land of the living. Selah.
  • Mark 10:24 : 24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, 'Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!'
  • Luke 12:19 : 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take it easy, eat, drink, and be merry.”'
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be arrogant or to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth, the number of his sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the officials and servants of the king.
  • Job 31:24-25 : 24 If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my security, 25 if I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had obtained much,
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.
  • Prov 10:15 : 15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
  • Prov 11:28 : 28 Whoever trusts in his wealth will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.
  • Jer 9:23 : 23 But let the one who boasts boast in this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight, declares the Lord.
  • Ezek 28:4-5 : 4 By your wisdom and understanding, you have made wealth for yourself, and you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trading, you have increased your wealth, and your heart has grown proud because of your wealth.
  • Hos 12:8 : 8 Canaan, in whose hands are deceitful scales, loves to defraud.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 52:6-7
    2 verses
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    6You love all words that destroy, O deceitful tongue.

    7But God will tear you down forever; He will snatch and uproot you from your tent and dislodge you from the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 62:9-10
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    78%

    9Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.

    10Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

  • Prov 11:28
    77%

    28Whoever trusts in his wealth will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
    76%

    17Command those who are rich in this present age not to be arrogant or to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Prov 18:11
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    11The wealth of the rich is like their fortified city; they imagine it is a wall too high to scale.

  • Ps 49:16
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    16But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for He will receive me. Selah.

  • Prov 13:7-8
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    7One pretends to be rich yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor yet has great wealth.

    8A person's wealth may ransom their life, but the poor hear no threat.

  • Ps 49:7
    73%

    7Those who trust in their wealth and boast in the abundance of their riches—

  • Ps 40:4
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    4He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and they will trust in the LORD.

  • Job 12:6
    72%

    6"The tents of robbers are at ease, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their own hand."

  • Deut 8:17
    72%

    17You may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand have produced this wealth for me.'

  • Ps 49:5
    72%

    5I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will expound my riddle on the harp.

  • Prov 10:15
    72%

    15The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

  • Ps 73:12
    72%

    12Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree, they increase in wealth.

  • Prov 28:11
    72%

    11A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man with understanding will see right through him.

  • Jer 9:23
    72%

    23But let the one who boasts boast in this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight, declares the Lord.

  • Ps 73:6-7
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    6Therefore, pride is their necklace; violence clothes them like a garment.

    7Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice.

  • Prov 23:4-5
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    4Do not wear yourself out trying to become rich; stop relying on your own understanding.

    5Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.

  • Prov 28:22
    71%

    22A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

  • Job 31:24-25
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    71%

    24If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my security,

    25if I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had obtained much,

  • Job 21:13
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    13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • Job 36:19
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    19Will your cry for help set things in order in distress, or will your exertions of strength suffice?

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13Or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children, there is nothing left for them to inherit.

  • Prov 28:6
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    6Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in his ways and rich.

  • Prov 28:25
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    25A greedy person stirs up conflict, but the one who trusts in the LORD will prosper.

  • Eccl 5:10-11
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    70%

    10As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

    11The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits them no sleep.

  • Ps 17:10
    70%

    10They close up their hearts to compassion; they speak with arrogance.

  • Prov 19:4
    70%

    4Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor person is abandoned by their friends.

  • Luke 12:21
    70%

    21So it is with one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

  • Hab 2:6
    70%

    6Will not all these take up a taunt against him, with mocking sayings and riddles? They will say, "Woe to him who amasses what is not his! How long will this go on? And who weighs himself down with stolen goods?"

  • Prov 28:20
    70%

    20A faithful man will abound in blessings, but one in a hurry to get rich will not go unpunished.

  • Luke 16:11
    70%

    11So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

  • Ezek 7:19
    70%

    19They will throw their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has caused their stumbling into sin.

  • Prov 11:4
    70%

    4Riches do not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Isa 46:6
    70%

    6They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

  • Ezek 28:5
    70%

    5By your great skill in trading, you have increased your wealth, and your heart has grown proud because of your wealth.

  • Luke 18:9
    70%

    9Jesus also told this parable to some who trusted in their own righteousness and treated others with contempt:

  • Ps 115:8
    70%

    8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

  • Ps 49:11
    70%

    11For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the senseless alike perish and leave their wealth to others.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8Whoever increases his wealth by charging interest and unfair gain gathers it for one who is kind to the poor.