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Luke 18:11-14
The Pharisee stood and began praying this in regard to himself:‘ God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, crooked, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying,‘ God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Revelation 3:17
Because you say,“ I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have no need of anything,” and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,
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Luke 12:21
Such is the one who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich in relation to God.”
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Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in poverty.
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Proverbs 12:9
Better is one who is lightly esteemed and has a servant, Than one who honors himself and lacks bread.
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1 Corinthians 4 10-1 Corinthians 4 11
We are fools on account of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor!Up to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless;
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2 Corinthians 6 10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
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2 Corinthians 4 7
But we have this treasure in earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
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Luke 12:33
“ Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor does a moth destroy.
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Ecclesiastes 11:1-2
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.
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2 Peter 2 19
promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.
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Proverbs 13:11
Wealth obtained from nothing dwindles, But one who gathers by labor increases it.
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James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: did God not choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
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1 Corinthians 4 8
You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you!
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Revelation 2:9
‘ I know your tribulation and your poverty( but you are rich), and the slander by those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
