Thematic Bible: Of the rich


Thematic Bible



All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made thee glad.

Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honey-comb; honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needle-work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to thee.

And hast taken thy broidered garments, and covered them: and thou hast set my oil and my incense before them.


The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins,

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.


And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration to them.

But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they who are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.


And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.



But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.


For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say to him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: