Job 38:14

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

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

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

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

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

“ ‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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 thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.