There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Luke 12:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So it is with the one who continues to lay up and hoard possessions for himself and is not rich [in his relation] to God [this is how he fares]. American Standard Version (1901) So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Common English Bible This is the way it will be for those who hoard things for themselves and aren’t rich toward God.” Catholic Public Domain Version So it is with him who stores up for himself, and is not wealthy with God." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God. |
There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Yisra'el is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
*But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
*I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Hasatan.