Luke 16:9

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.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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

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.”

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

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.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

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.”

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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

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.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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.

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

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.

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.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

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

for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

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

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

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.”

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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?

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

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.”

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

“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.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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

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

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.”

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

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.”

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

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

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

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

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

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

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.”

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.