Luke 18:24

New Living Translation

When Jesus saw this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!

Cross References

Psalm 10:3

For they brag about their evil desires; they praise the greedy and curse the Lord.

Proverbs 11:28

Trust in your money and down you go! But the godly flourish like leaves in spring.

Proverbs 18:11

The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense; they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.

Proverbs 30:9

For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.

Jeremiah 2:31

“O my people, listen to the words of the Lord! Have I been like a desert to Israel? Have I been to them a land of darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘At last we are free from God! We don’t need him anymore!’

Jeremiah 5:5

So I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they know the ways of the Lord and understand God’s laws.” But the leaders, too, as one man, had thrown off God’s yoke and broken his chains.

Mark 6:26

Then the king deeply regretted what he had said; but because of the vows he had made in front of his guests, he couldn’t refuse her.

Luke 18:23

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