Proverbs 31:16

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

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

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

Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

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

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

“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.

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

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;

and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

When she came, she had him ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey, and Caleb said, “What do you want?”

“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.

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.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

“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 when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

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.

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.

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.”

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

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

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.”

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.