1 Kings 11:22

Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each.

Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.

For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”

When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him.

Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”

“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,

They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.

Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”

Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”