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- No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
- Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
- 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.
- Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
- But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.