Proverbs 10:15

New International Version

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

Cross References

Psalm 49:6

those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?

Psalm 52:7

“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”

Proverbs 14:20

The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

Proverbs 18:11

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

Proverbs 19:7

The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.

Jeremiah 9:23

This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,

Mark 10:24

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Luke 12:19

And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.