"Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.

"But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.

Israel is a luxuriant vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he made; The richer his land, The better he made the [sacred] pillars.

"Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house To put his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

"Therefore if you have not been faithful in the [use of] unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true [riches] to you?

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.

[Instruct them] to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.