DailyVerses.netTopicsRandom VerseSubscribe

Materialism (2/2)

  • How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
  • No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the 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 everything.
  • “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    “therefore I will hope in him.”
  • When goods increase, those who eat them increase, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
  • Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”
  • When I fed them, they were satisfied;
    they were satisfied, and their heart was proud;
    therefore they forgot me.
  • Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life,
    but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.
  • You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.