Materialism (2/2)

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
1 John 3:17 money neighbor compassion
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Matthew 6:24 serving money debt

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.”
Lamentations 3:24 hope acknowledging
As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6:10 sadness joy money
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5:11 money desires
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 work neighbor desires
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
Luke 3:11 giving poverty neighbor
The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
but the poor hear no threats.
Proverbs 13:8 money fear poverty
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
Exodus 20:17 greed law neighbor
According to their pasture, so were they filled;
they were filled, and their heart was exalted.
Therefore they have forgotten me.
Hosea 13:6 pride dependence food