Verse 19

Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth, where the mothe & canker corrupt, and where theeues digge through and steale.

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse, and be content with those things that ye haue, for he hath said,
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Go to nowe, ye rich men: weepe, and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten. 3 Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Loue not this world, neither the things that are in this world. If any man loue this world, the loue of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in this world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this world.
  • 1 Tim 6:8-9 : 8 Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content. 9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction. 10 For the desire of money is the roote of all euill, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pearced themselues through with many sorowes.
  • Luke 12:21 : 21 So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, & that they trust not in vncertaine riches, but in the liuing God, (which giueth vs aboundatly, all things to enioy)
  • Eccl 5:10-14 : 10 (5:9) He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie. 11 (5:10) When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes? 12 (5:11) The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe. 13 (5:12) There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill. 14 (5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 Howe much better is it to get wisedome then golde? and to get vnderstanding, is more to be desired then siluer.
  • Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome. 5 Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? For riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
  • Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their siluer nor their golde shalbe able to deliuer them in ye day of the Lords wrath, but the whole lande shalbe deuoured by the fire of his ielousie: for hee shall make euen a speedie riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
  • Matt 19:21 : 21 Iesus sayd vnto him, If thou wilt be perfite, go, sell that thou hast, & giue it to the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, & come, and followe me.
  • Job 31:24 : 24 If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
  • Ps 62:10 : 10 Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that ye haue, and giue almes: make you bagges, which waxe not old, a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen, where no theefe commeth, neither mothe corrupteth.
  • Luke 18:22 : 22 Nowe when Iesus heard that, he saide vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that euer thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come followe mee.
  • Luke 18:24 : 24 And when Iesus sawe him very sorowfull, he said, With what difficultie shall they that haue riches, enter into the kingdome of God!