If in this life only we believe on Christ, then are we, of all men, the miserablest.

"Miserable wretches!" they exclaimed, "he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times."

Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection;

for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Yet God, who comforts those who feel miserable, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?

“And His mercy is upon generation after generation
Toward those who [stand in great awe of God and] fear Him.

But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].