Acts 4:34

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

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

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

“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.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

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.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

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

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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?

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.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.