Jesus said to his disciples: Verily I say to you, A rich man will with difficulty enter into the kingdom of heaven.

and, behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it throws him into convulsions, and causes him to foam, and after depriving him of strength, hardly departs from him.

And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, who worshiped God, and whose house joined the synagogue.

and coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which is the city of Lasea.

Do you, there fore, suffer evil, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

through which things very great and precious favors that were promised have been given us, that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire: