Proverbs 3:14

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

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

“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?’

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

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.

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

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

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.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

“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.

It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

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.”

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?

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

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

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

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

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

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 the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

“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.

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;

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.

One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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

The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more: