Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.
For I am conscious that this will be for my salvation, through your prayer and the giving out of the stored wealth of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.
And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.
The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.
Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.
Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.
A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.
The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.
In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.
House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
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