Luke 6:24

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

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 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?

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.

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.

“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.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

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

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.

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.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

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!

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

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.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

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.

“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.

Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

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

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

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

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

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

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

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

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

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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.

They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

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—

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

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!”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

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

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

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;

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;