Retirement

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

And when the days of his service were complete, he returned home.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. …

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. …

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy. …

I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

…being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.