Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Riches and honour are with me; (yea,) durable riches and righteousness. "Riches," as well the eternal and heavenly riches, as also temporal riches so far as God sees it desirable to "add" them to those who "seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness" (Matthew 6:33). "Durable" - literally, attaining old age, and so enduring, strong: thus the same Hebrew word х `aateeq (H6276)] is applied to "the Ancient of days" - i:e., the Everlasting One (Daniel 7:9). "Righteousness" is associated with these "durable riches," in contrast to the world's perishing riches, which being ill-gotten are soon ill-gone. In Christ there are for the believer at once "durable riches" and "righteousness:" outside of Him there is neither (Ephesians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 1:30).