Genesis 41:53

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

Behold, seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt are coming.

In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.

This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

For there are three who testify:

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.