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And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.
“But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.
And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive.
Lk 14:12
“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
“For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.
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?
But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?
‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,