Luke 16:25

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.

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.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

“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.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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?

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

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.”

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

“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?’

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

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

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

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.

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.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

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.

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

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—

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!”

The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

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;

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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;

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,

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

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.