Bible Dictionary: Riches: Often Lead to Pride

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Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:
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Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
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Library

On Riches
... This is not uncommon: He often sends pain, and sickness ... seek happiness, as their
various tastes lead, in poetry ... it only on this account, that riches furnish him ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 108 on riches.htm

Pride of Prosperity
... Often these alliances were sealed by marriages with heathen ... and the power of his
example would lead his wives ... brought him renown, honor, and the riches of this ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 3 pride of prosperity.htm

Whether the Mode and Order of the Temptation were Becoming?
... begins with lighter sins, so as gradually to lead him to ... Reply to Objection 2: It
often happens that a man ... 3: It is a sin to desire worldly riches and honors ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the mode and order.htm

The Fruitless vine
... most to be cursed and despised is the pride of a ... by his holy living, for he that
hath riches often liveth in ... are to be found in the men that lead the vanguard ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/the fruitless vine.htm

The Danger of Riches
... Riches, either desired or possessed, naturally lead to some or ... It was often as an
arrow from the hand of a ... O ye gainers, lovers, possessors of riches, one more ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 87 the danger of.htm

The Sermon on the Mount.
... fullness, and so poverty of spirit precedes riches and grace ... apart from a sense of
sin, often prove blessings ... would glut their martial spirit, and lead them to ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xlii the sermon on the 2.htm

Solomon
... for this quiet country life which we lead here, free ... columns of our newspapers are
so often filled with ... prayer: 'Give me neither poverty nor riches, but feed ...
/.../kingsley/the water of life and other sermons/sermon xi solomon.htm

Christian Morals. Part I.
... Self-credulity, pride, and levity lead unto self ... observing the unnatural current
of riches, power, and ... imperfection and demerit of persons often advanced unto ...
//christianbookshelf.org/browne/christian morals/christian morals part i.htm

Temporal Advantages.
... And it will often happen, that from coveting them before ... of this world and the
deceitfulness of riches choke the ... And as these goods lead us to love the world ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon v temporal advantages.htm

Salvation by Faith
... sin, and the consequences of sin, both often expressed in the ... 3. But does not preaching
this faith lead men into ... that he might show the exceeding riches of his ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 1 salvation by faith.htm