And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor
Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their o
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundar
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of
“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and d
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuou
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealt
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death,
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge w
Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merr
So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized a
you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sin
You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good