²⁴ The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

¹⁷ Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

⁵ Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."

³³ Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches will fall, But the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

⁷ "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

⁶⁰ Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--

¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

² Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

³ Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

¹ My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor{Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.} with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

⁴ You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

²¹ Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

²⁶ Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"

²⁷ But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."

¹⁴ The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

¹⁴ From men by your hand, Yahweh, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, And they store up wealth for their children.

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth, And boast in the multitude of their riches--

⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give God a ransom for him.

¹⁰ Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.

¹¹ The rich man's wealth is his strong city, Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

⁵ Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

²³ Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;

⁴ by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

⁵ by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches;-

⁹ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

²⁵ When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"

¹⁶ He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

¹⁷ He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

¹⁸ He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

¹⁹ I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

²⁰ "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

²¹ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

²⁴ "If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

²⁵ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;