Bible Dictionary: Riches: Vanity of Heaping Up

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Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
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Ecclesiastes 5:10,11
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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On the Words of the Gospel, Luke xvi. 9, "Make to Yourselves ...
... filled your coffers thereby, and were heaping up treasure by ... so by them, "whose mouth
hath spoken vanity." By them ... of iniquity" of the Gospel is called riches. ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon lxiii on the words.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. vi. 19, "Lay not up for ...
... Hast thou not heard, "If riches increase, set not your ... art saving I would say, "Thou
art heaping up treasure, and ... If the vanity hath continued in him, hath the ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon x on the words.htm

Of the Judgment and Punishment of the Wicked
... be, and the more fuel art thou heaping up for the ... Then contempt of riches shall have
more weight than all the ... All therefore is vanity, save to love God and to ...
/.../kempis/imitation of christ/chapter xxiv of the judgment.htm

With the Opening of this ChapterWe Come to Quite a Different Theme ...
... is the sorrowful groan, "This is also vanity." "If goods ... the Preacher has watched
the miser heaping up ever, and ... special line of the power of riches to give ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter v with the opening.htm

Psalm XXXIX.
... He heapeth up riches, and knoweth ... for whom he may be gathering them together." O
infatuated vanity! ... things: and tell me now, "You are heaping up treasures; for ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xxxix.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... the love of money, or the desire of riches, it would ... highly than he ought to think;
the vanity, the thirst ... and that thou thyself hast been heaping up sin upon ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 21 upon our lords.htm

The Honoured Guest
... and diversions, your losses, and your gains, heaping up, not knowing ... They are crying,
"Buy, buy," in Vanity Fair, while ... of Christ to be greater riches than the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 61 1915/the honoured guest.htm

But we must Follow Our Preacher, who Can Only Turn Away with ...
... earth says are too vile for her, heaping their indignities ... strained in the race for
those riches that satisfy ... "Vanity" is the Preacher's commentary on the scene ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter iv but we must.htm

The Duty of the People of God to Excite Others to Seek this Rest.
... drawn to Christ; and what are the riches and privileges ... terrors of death and judgment;
the vanity of all ... goes deeper in debt; wrath is heaping up; sin taking ...
/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter ix the duty of.htm

The First Stages. Ch. 9:51 to 13:21
... Jesus further rebuked the vanity and the desire for prominence ... by our Lord to teach
that riches neither form ... story of the rich man who was heaping up goods for ...
/.../erdman/the gospel of luke an exposition/a the first stages ch.htm