Luke 18:24

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.”

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

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.

“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

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

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

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;

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

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

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

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

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

“ ‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”

Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

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

Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

“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?’

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

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.