your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten;
Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.
born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you,
Suppose there comes into your meeting a man who wears gold rings and handsome clothes, and also a poor man in dirty clothes;