Torrey's Topical Index
Riches
The true riches—Eph
3:8; 1Co
1:30; Col
2:3; 1Pe
2:7
God gives—1Sa
2:7; Ec
5:19
To God belongs this world's riches—Hag
2:8
God gives power to obtain—De
8:18
The blessing of the Lord brings—Pr
10:22
Give worldly power—Pr
22:7
DESCRIBED AS
Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel—Mr
10:23-25
Deceitfulness of, chokes the word—Mt
13:22
The love of, the root of all evil—1Ti
6:10
OFTEN LEAD TO
Life consists not in abundance of—Lu
12:15
Be not over-anxious for—Pr
30:8
Labour not for—Pr
23:4
THEY WHO COVET
- Fall into temptation and a snare
- —1Ti 6:9
- Fall into hurtful lusts
- —1Ti 6:9
- Err from the faith
- —1Ti 6:10
- Use unlawful means to acquire
- —Pr 28:20
- Bring trouble on themselves
- —1Ti 6:10
- Bring trouble on their families
- —Pr 15:27
Profit not in the day of wrath—Pr
11:4
Cannot secure prosperity—Jas
1:11
Cannot redeem the soul—Ps
49:6-9; 1Pe
1:18
Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath—Zep
1:18; Re
6:15-17
THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD
- Ascribe them to God
- —1Ch 29:12
- Not trust in them
- —Job 31:24; 1Ti 6:17
- Not set the heart on them
- —Ps 62:10
- Not boast of obtaining them
- —De 8:17
- Not glory in them
- —Jer 9:23
- Not hoard them up
- —Mt 6:19
- Devote them to God's service
- —1Ch 29:3; Mr 12:42-44
- Give of them to the poor
- —Mt 19:21; 1Jo 3:17
- Use them in promoting the salvation of others
- —Lu 16:9
- Be liberal in all things
- —1Ti 6:18
- Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give
- —1Ch 29:14
- Not to be high-minded
- —1Ti 6:17
- When converted, rejoice in being humbled
- —Jas 1:9,10
Heavenly treasures superior to—Mt
6:19,20
Of the wicked laid up for the just—Pr
13:22
THE WICKED
Vanity of heaping up—Ps
39:6; Ec
5:10,11
Guilt of trusting in—Job
31:24,28; Eze
28:4,5,8
Guilt of rejoicing in—Job
31:25,28
DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO
Danger of misusing-Illustrated—Lu
16:19-25
Examples of saints possessing
Examples of those truly rich—Mt
5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Lu
10:42; Joh
1:45; Php
3:8; Jas
2:5; 1Pe
2:7; Re
3:18
Examples of wicked men possessing