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He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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.

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

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

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

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.

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;

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

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you. — read the full passage →

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

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 →

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—

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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 →

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!”

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ — read the full passage →

Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills. — read the full passage →

It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.

Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found.”

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: no one shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: — read the full passage →

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, — read the full passage →

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. — read the full passage →

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. — read the full passage →

The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.”

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.