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Proverbs 13:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

One person pretends to be rich but has nothing; another pretends to be poor but has abundant wealth.

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For you say, “I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,”   and you don’t realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.


Better to be disregarded, yet have a servant, than to act important but have no food.


One person gives freely, yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.


as grieving, yet always rejoicing;  as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.


Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power  may be from God and not from us.


They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.


Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world  to be rich in faith  and heirs  of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?


‘That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure   for himself and is not rich towards God.’


Wealth obtained by fraud will dwindle, but whoever earns it through labour  will multiply it.


I know your   affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.


You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us #– #and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!


Sell   your possessions and give to the poor.   Make money-bags   for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure   in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.


‘But God said to him, “You fool!   This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared #– #whose will they be? ”


Riches are a ransom for a person’s life, but a poor person hears no threat.





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