Silver

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Don’t take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.

Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

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

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

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.

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.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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 →