And they come to you as peoples come, and they sit before you as My people. And they hear your words, but they do not do them. For they produce much love with their mouth, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.
But take heed to yourselves that your hearts not be loaded down with headaches, and drinking, and anxieties of life, and that day come suddenly upon you.
And the one falling in the thornbushes, these are the ones hearing, but under cares and riches and pleasures of life, moving along, they are choked, and do not bear to maturity.
Set your way of life without moneyloving, being satisfied with present things; for He has said, “Not I will leave you, not ever! Nor I will not forsake you, not ever!” Deut. 31:6
When I saw among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold, one of fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them, and took them. And behold, they are hidden in the earth, in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it.
having eyes full of an adulteress, and never ceasing from sin; alluring unstable souls; having a heart being busied with covetousness; cursed children;