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Luke 18:22

Weymouth NT

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.«

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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.«

and yet only one thing is really necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion and she shall not be deprived of it.«

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.

»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.«

»All of those,« he replied, »I have kept from my youth.«

But on hearing these words he was deeply sorrowful, for he was exceedingly rich.

And He said to all, »If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.

Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do–forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,

But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand years resemble one day.




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