Bible Verses About Transience of Earthly Gifts

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: