Bible Dictionary: Riches: They Who Possess, should not Set the Heart on Them

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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On the Words of the Gospel, Luke xvi. 9, "Make to Yourselves ...
... says this, "Make to yourselves friends of the riches of iniquity ... For they say, "To
plunder the goods of others, is ... give out of that which ye possess rightfully. ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon lxiii on the words.htm

On the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Ghost
... (8) Blessed are they that suffer ... in spirit if he does not set his heart upon riches
and the ... would be willing to offend God in order to possess them, or rather ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 16 on the gifts.htm

Temporal Advantages.
... says, "Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me ... the pleasure which we beforehand
suppose they will bring ... Watch narrowly the persons who possess them, and you ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon v temporal advantages.htm

The Communion of Gifts.
... Him want and misery make place for riches and abundance. ... especially adapted to himself,
yet all possess the one ... in the gracious operation of which they are the ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxvii the communion of gifts.htm

Divine and Worldly Conformity
... many a person into thinking that he had found riches. ... not manifest them, it is because
we do not possess them. ... expect that these principles as they relate to ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk nineteen divine and worldly.htm

"Boast not Thyself of to Morrow, for Thou Knowest not what a Day ...
... such a selfish disposition or inclination possess any part of ... and certain joy in
uncertain riches, and solid ... of present sorrows, but at length they recur with ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon vii boast not thyself.htm

Being Troubled by his Grievous Errors, He Meditates Entering on a ...
... Even those things are enjoyable; and they possess some and ... should knock at Thine
ears, and should with firm ... a beauteous wife, the pomp of riches, the emptiness ...
/.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter xi being troubled by his.htm

"But the End of all Things is at Hand, be Ye Therefore Sober and ...
... in want,"to have nothing, and yet possess all things. ... thinks not that he serves his
riches, yet Christ ... affections are the man's master, and they command the ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xx but the end.htm

How Far Christians Ought to be from Boasting, if they have done ...
... the censor, because he was discovered to possess ten pounds ... who make common property
of their riches with a ... of such great men, the reward which they sought was ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 18 how far christians ought.htm

Thoughts Upon Worldly-Riches. Sect. Ii.
... have not the lawful use of what we possess; but every ... Advice, do what good he can
with the Riches he hath ... or intreated by others to do them; but they must set ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon worldly-riches sect ii.htm