Psalms 17:14

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.

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.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

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

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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 woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

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

“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.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

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

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

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

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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 have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

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

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

“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.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

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.

“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?’

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes 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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

“ ‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

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

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

“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 the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

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!

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

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

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

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.