Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

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Now you insult the poor. Is it not the rich who lord it over you and drag you to court?

And Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you truly, it will be difficult for a rich man to get into the Realm of heaven.

But woe to you rich folk! you get all the comforts you will ever get.

And he told them a parable. "A rich man's estate bore heavy crops.

There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.

Then the kings of the earth, the magnates, the generals, the rich, the strong, slaves and freemen everyone of them, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

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Lament and mourn and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to depression;

Woe to you who have your fill to-day! you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh to-day! you will wail and weep.

but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children!

General references

Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building,