Thematic Bible: Of the rich


Thematic Bible



All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

“Your lips, my bride, drip honey;
Honey and milk are under your tongue,
And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.


She will be led to the King in embroidered work;
The virgins, her companions who follow her,
Will be brought to You.

Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.


festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks, money purses,

He may prepare it, but the just will wear it
And the innocent will divide the silver.


On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who are splendidly clothed and live in luxury are found in royal palaces!


While I am decaying like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.



But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ palaces!


For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,"