Lexicon :: Strong's G4145 - plousios

Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven.

When it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Sitting across from the temple treasury, he watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.

“But woe to you who are rich,

for you have received your comfort.

Then he told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.

Now he said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who received an accusation that his manager was squandering his possessions.

“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.

“He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.

After he heard this, he became extremely sad, because he was very rich.

“For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us,[fn]

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God,[fn] who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

“I know your[fn] affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

“For you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

And it makes everyone ​— ​small and great, rich and poor, free and slave ​— ​to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,