Thursday 28 February 2030

1Come now, you rich,weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.2Your riches are corruptedand your garments are moth-eaten.3Your gold and your silver are corroded,and their corrosion will be for a testimony against youand will eat your flesh like fire.You have laid up your treasure in the last days.4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields,which you have kept back by fraud, cry out;and the cries of thosewho reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.5You have lived in luxury on the earth,and taken your pleasure.You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.6You have condemnedand you have murdered the righteous one.He doesn’t resist you.

14This is the destiny of those who are foolish,and of those who approve their sayings.15They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.Death shall be their shepherd.

15The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,far from their mansion.16But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,for he will receive me.

17Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,when the glory of his house is increased;18for when he dies he will carry nothing away.His glory won’t descend after him.

19Though while he lived he blessed his soul—and men praise you when you do well for yourself—20he shall go to the generation of his fathers.They shall never see the light.

41For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my namebecause you are Christ’s,most certainly I tell you,he will in no way lose his reward.

42“Whoever will cause one of these little oneswho believe in me to stumble,it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.It is better for you to enter into life maimed,rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna,into the unquenchable fire,45If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.It is better for you to enter into life lame,rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna,into the fire that will never be quenched—47If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out.It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye,rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,48‘where their worm doesn’t die,and the fire is not quenched.’49For everyone will be salted with fire,and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness,with what will you season it?Have salt in yourselves,and be at peace with one another.”