'Prosperity' in the Bible

You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

The Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

“See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity;

Nevertheless I did not believe the reports, until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard.

So now do not give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters to your sons, and never seek their peace or their prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’

“Nothing remains for him to devour,Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

“They spend their days in prosperity,And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

“Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand;The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

“Terrors are turned against me;They pursue my honor as the wind,And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

“If they hear and serve Him,They will end their days in prosperityAnd their years in pleasures.

His soul will abide in prosperity,And his descendants will inherit the land.

Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,“I will never be moved.”

Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication;And let them say continually, “The Lord be magnified,Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.”

But the humble will inherit the landAnd will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

God makes a home for the lonely;He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

For I was envious of the arrogantAs I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,That I may glory with Your inheritance.

O Lord, do save, we beseech You;O Lord, we beseech You, do send prosperity!

“May peace be within your walls,And prosperity within your palaces.”

The Lord bless you from Zion,And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Adversity pursues sinners,But the righteous will be rewarded with prosperity.

In the day of prosperity be happy,But in the day of adversity consider—God has made the one as well as the otherSo that man will not discover anything that will be after him.

“For he will be like a bush in the desertAnd will not see when prosperity comes,But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,A land of salt without inhabitant.

“I spoke to you in your prosperity;But you said, ‘I will not listen!’This has been your practice from your youth,That you have not obeyed My voice.

“Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to bring My words on this city for disaster and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day.

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

Again, proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”’”

these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.

I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.