- But whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
- No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
- As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
- “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I wait for Him.” - When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them?
- I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is futility and striving after wind.
- And he would answer and say to them, “The one who has two tunics is to share with the one who has none; and the one who has food is to do likewise.”
- The ransom of a person’s life is his wealth,
But the poor hears no rebuke. - As they had their pasture, they became satisfied,
And as they became satisfied, their heart became proud;
Therefore they forgot Me. - You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
A prudent person sees evil and hides himself;
But the naive proceed, and pay the penalty. That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner self, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love.Next verse!With image