Jeremiah 41:8

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

“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.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.

You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.

Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”

As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.

Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;

“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’ ”

I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more.

Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says Yahweh.

Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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?

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.