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Luke 18:11-14
The Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself:‘ God, I thank you that I’m not like other people— greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’“ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying,‘ God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Revelation 3:17
For you say,‘ I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
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Luke 12:21
“ That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
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Proverbs 11:24
One person gives freely, yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
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Proverbs 12:9
Better to be disregarded, yet have a servant, than to act important but have no food.
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1 Corinthians 4 10-1 Corinthians 4 11
We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;
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2 Corinthians 6 10
as grieving, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
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2 Corinthians 4 7
Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.
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Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
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Ecclesiastes 11:1-2
Send your bread on the surface of the water, for after many days you may find it.Give a portion to seven or even to eight, for you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.
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2 Peter 2 19
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.
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Proverbs 13:11
Wealth obtained by fraud will dwindle, but whoever earns it through labor will multiply it.
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James 2:5
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
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1 Corinthians 4 8
You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us— and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!
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Revelation 2:9
I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
