Psalm 62:10

Easy To Read Version

Don’t trust the power to take things by force.\par Don’t think you will gain anything by stealing.\par And if you become rich,\par don’t trust your riches to help you.\par

Cross References

Job 20:19

Why? Because the evil person\par hurt poor people\par and treated them wrong.\par He didn’t care about them,\par and he took their things.\par He took houses someone else built.\par

Job 20:29

That is what God will do to evil people.\par That is what God plans to give them.”\par

Psalm 39:6

Our life is like an image \{in a mirror\}. {\cf2\super [239]} \par We rush through life collecting things,\par but we don’t know who will get them\par \{after we die\}.\par

Psalm 4:3

You know that the Lord listens\par to his good people.\par So the Lord hears me when I pray to him.\par

Psalm 49:6

Some people think their strength and wealth will protect them.\par But those people are fools.\par

Psalm 52:7

“Look what happened to the man\par who did not depend on God.\par That man thought his wealth and lies\par would protect him.”\par

Psalm 91:14

The Lord says,\par “If a person trusts me, I will save him.\par I will protect my followers\par who worship my name.\par

Proverbs 23:5

Money goes very quickly, as if it grows wings and flies away like a bird.

Isaiah 28:15

You people say, “We have made an agreement with death. We have a contract with Sheol—\{the place of death\}. So we will not be punished. Punishment will pass us without hurting us. We will hide behind our tricks and lies.”

Isaiah 30:12

The Holy One (God) of Israel says, “You people have refused to accept this message from the Lord. You people want to depend on fighting and lies to help you.

Isaiah 40:15

Look, all the nations in the world are like\par one small drop in the bucket.\par If the Lord took all the faraway nations,\par and put them on his weighing scales,\par they would be like small pieces of dust.\par

Isaiah 40:17

Compared to God,\par all the nations of the world are nothing.\par Compared to God,\par all the nations are worth nothing at all.\par

Isaiah 47:10

You do bad things, but still you feel safe.\par You think to yourself,\par ‘No one sees the wrong things I do.’\par You think that your wisdom and knowledge\par will save you.\par You think to yourself,\par ‘I am the only one.\par No one is important like me.’\par

Isaiah 59:4

No person tells the truth about other people. People sue each other in court, and they depend on false arguments to win their cases. They tell lies about each other. They are full of trouble, and they give birth to evil.

Isaiah 61:8

\{Why will this happen?\} Because I am the Lord and I love fairness. I hate stealing and everything that is wrong. So I will give the people the payment they should have. I will make an Agreement with my people forever.

Jeremiah 13:25

These are the things that will happen to you.\par This is your part in my plans.”\par

Jeremiah 17:11

Sometimes a bird will hatch an egg\par that it did not lay.\par A person that cheats to get money\par is like that bird.\par When that man’s life is half finished,\par he will lose the money.\par At the end of his life, it will be clear\par that he was a foolish person.”\par

Mark 10:23

Then Jesus looked at his followers and said to them, “It will be very hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God!”

1 Timothy 6:10

The love of money causes all kinds of evil. Some people have left the \{true\} faith (teaching) because they want to get more and more money. But they have caused themselves to be very, very sad.

1 Timothy 6:17

Give this command to the people who are rich with the things this world has. Tell them not to be proud. Tell those rich people to hope in God, not their money. Money cannot be trusted. But God takes care of us richly. He gives us everything to enjoy.