New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Riches

• The true riches Eph. 3:8; 1 Cor. 1:30; Col. 2:3; 1 Pet. 2:7
• God gives 1 Sam. 2:7; Eccl. 5:19
• To God belongs this world's riches Hag. 2:8
• God gives power to obtain Dt. 8:18
• The blessing of the Lord brings Pr. 10:22
• Give worldly power Pr. 22:7
• Described as
  • Temporary Pr. 27:24
  • Uncertain 1 Tim. 6:17
  • Unsatisfying Eccl. 4:8, 5:10
  • Corruptible Jas. 5:2; 1 Pet. 1:18
  • Fleeting Pr. 23:5; Rev. 18:16, 17
  • Deceitful Mt. 13:22
  • Liable to be stolen Mt. 6:19
  • Perishable Jer. 48:36
  • Thick clay Hab. 2:6
• Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel Mk. 10:23-25
• Deceitfulness of, chokes the word Mt. 13:22
• The love of, the root of all evil 1 Tim. 6:10
• Often lead to
  • Pride Ezek. 28:5; Hos. 12:8
  • Forgetting God Dt. 8:13, 14
  • Denying God Pr. 30:8, 9
  • Forsaking God Dt. 32:15
  • Rebelling against God Neh. 9:25, 26
  • Rejecting Christ Mt. 19:22; Mk. 10:22
  • Self-sufficiency Pr. 28:11
  • Anxiety Eccl. 5:12
  • An overbearing spirit Pr. 18:23
  • Violence Mic. 6:12
  • Oppression Jas. 2:6
  • Fraud Jas. 5:4
  • Sensual indulgence Lk. 16:19; Jas. 5:5
• Life consists not in abundance of Lk. 12:15
• Be not over-anxious for Pr. 30:8
• Labor not for Pr. 23:4
• They who covet
  • Fall into temptation and a snare 1 Tim. 6:9
  • Fall into hurtful lusts 1 Tim. 6:9
  • Err from the faith 1 Tim. 6:10
  • Use unlawful means to acquire Pr. 28:20
  • Bring trouble on themselves 1 Tim. 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; 1 Pet. 1:18
• Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath Zeph. 1:18; Rev. 6:15-17
• They who possess, should
  • Ascribe them to God 1 Chr. 29:12
  • Not trust in them Job 31:24; 1 Tim. 6:17
  • Not set the heart on them Ps. 62:10
  • Not boast of obtaining them Dt. 8:17
  • Not glory in them Jer. 9:23
  • Not hoard them up Mt. 6:19
  • Devote them to God's service 1 Chr. 29:3; Mk. 12:42-44
  • Give of them to the poor Mt. 19:21; 1 Jn. 3:17
  • Use them in promoting the salvation of others Lk. 16:9
  • Be liberal in all things 1 Tim. 6:18
  • Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give 1 Chr. 29:14
  • Not to be high-minded 1 Tim. 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
  • Often increase in Ps. 73:12
  • Often spend their days in Job 21:13
  • Swallow down Job 20:15
  • Trust in the abundance of Ps. 52:7
  • Heap up Job 27:16; Ps. 39:6; Eccl. 2:26
  • Keep, to their hurt Eccl. 5:13
  • Boast themselves in Ps. 49:6, 52:7
  • Profit not by Pr. 11:4, 13:7; Eccl. 5:11
  • Have trouble with Pr. 15:6; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10
  • Must leave, to others Ps. 49:10
• Vanity of heaping up Ps. 39:6; Eccl. 5:10, 11
• Guilt of trusting in Job 31:24, 28; Ezek. 28:4, 5, 8
• Guilt of rejoicing in Job 31:25, 28
• Denunciations against those who
  • Get, by vanity Pr. 13:11, 21:6
  • Get, unlawfully Jer. 17:11
  • Increase, by oppression Pr. 22:16; Hab. 2:6-8; Mic. 2:2, 3
  • Hoard up Eccl. 5:13, 14; Jas. 5:3
  • Trust in Pr. 11:28
  • Receive their consolation Lk. 6:24
  • Abuse Jas. 5:1, 5
  • Spend, upon their appetite Job 20:15-17
• Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated Lk. 12:16-21
• Danger of misusing-Illustrated Lk. 16:19-25
• Examples of saints possessing
  • Abram Gen. 13:2
  • Lot Gen. 13:5, 6
  • Isaac Gen. 26:13, 14
  • Jacob Gen. 32:5, 10
  • Joseph Gen. 45:8, 13
  • Boaz Ruth 2:1
  • Barzillai 2 Sam. 19:32
  • Shunammite 2 Ki. 4:8
  • David 1 Chr. 29:28
  • Jehoshaphat 2 Chr. 17:5
  • Hezekiah 2 Chr. 32:27-29
  • Job Job 1:3
  • Joseph of Arimathea Mt. 27:57
  • Zacchaeus Lk. 19:2
  • Dorcas Acts 9:36
• Examples of those truly rich Mt. 5:8, 8:10, 13:45, 46; Lk. 10:42; Jn. 1:45; Phil. 3:8; Jas. 2:5; 1 Pet. 2:7; Rev. 3:18
• Examples of wicked men possessing
  • Laban Gen. 30:30
  • Esau Gen. 36:7
  • Nabal 1 Sam. 25:2
  • Haman Esther 5:11
  • Ammonites Jer. 49:4
  • People of Tyre Ezek. 28:5
  • Young man Mt. 19:22