Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves money bags which do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where a thief does not come near, nor does a moth destroy.
Luke 12:21 - English Majority Text Version So is he who accumulates treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God." Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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. |
Sell your possessions and give alms; make for yourselves money bags which do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where a thief does not come near, nor does a moth destroy.
Therefore if you were not faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is genuine?
"But woe to you who are rich, because you have received your consolation.
But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and 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 desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.
Listen, my beloved brothers. Did God not choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those that love Him?
"I know your works, and your tribulation, and your poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.