| For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be. | For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. |
| Jesus replied, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” | Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” |
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| It is better to have a little and fear the Lord than to possess immense wealth and suffer anguish. | Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil. |
| I treasure your word in my heart for fear that I may sin against you. | I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. |
| A good man produces good from the store of goodness in his heart, whereas an evil man produces evil from the store of evil within him. For the mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart. | A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. |
| Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where they will be destroyed by moth and rust and where thieves break in and steal. Rather, store up treasure for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves cannot break in and steal. | Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. |
| Treasures obtained by wicked means profit nothing, but a righteous life brings delivery from death. | Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death. |
| Now, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession from among all the peoples, for the entire earth is mine. | Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine. |
| I have not strayed from the commandments of his lips; I have treasured in my heart the words of his mouth. | I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread. |
| Your statutes are my everlasting heritage; they are the very joy of my heart. | Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart. |
| One who finds a wife finds happiness and receives favor from the Lord. | He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord. |
| He reserves his wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who lead blameless lives. | He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless. |
| They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my own special possession on the day when I act, and I will have compassion on them as a father has compassion on the son who serves him. | “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him.” |
