Luke 18:24

Good News Translation

Jesus saw that he was sad and said, “How hard it is for rich people to enter the Kingdom of God!

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

The wicked are proud of their evil desires; the greedy curse and reject the Lord.

Proverbs 11:28

Those who depend on their wealth will fall like the leaves of autumn, but the righteous will prosper like the leaves of summer.

Proverbs 18:11

Rich people, however, imagine that their wealth protects them like high, strong walls around a city.

Proverbs 30:9

If I have more, I might say that I do not need you. But if I am poor, I might steal and bring disgrace on my God.

Jeremiah 2:31

People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Have I been like a desert to you, like a dark and dangerous land? Why, then, do you say that you will do as you please, that you will never come back to me?

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the people in power and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what the Lord wants them to do.” But all of them have rejected the Lord's authority and refuse to obey him.

Mark 6:26

This made the king very sad, but he could not refuse her because of the vows he had made in front of all his guests.

Luke 18:23

But when the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was very rich.