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Psalm 62:10

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Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

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For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.

Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”

“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?

“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”

“Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.

This is your lot, the portion I have decreed for you,” declares the Lord, “because you have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.

Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.




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