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Luke 12:33

Weymouth NT

Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume.

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»If you desire to be perfect,« replied Jesus, »go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; and come, follow me.«

But as to what is within, give alms, and instantly all is clean in you.

»So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God.«

»But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails, shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.«

On receiving this answer Jesus said to him, »There is still one thing wanting in you. Sell everything you possess and give the money to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; and then come, follow me.«

The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it.

They sold their lands and other property, and distributed the proceeds among all, according to every one's necessities.

how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase their generous liberality.




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