Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure i
There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the procee
Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.
On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will h
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eterna
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealt
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put o
In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.
Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used