For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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.”
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. — read the full passage →
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →
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.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. — read the full passage →
On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
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.”
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →
Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.
Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →
which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst,
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →
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