⁶ He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

²¹ A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

¹¹ Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

³ And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

² Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

³⁶ But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

¹¹ By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

⁹ But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

¹¹ Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

⁸ Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

⁸ By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

¹⁴ A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.