Thematic Bible: Of the rich


Thematic Bible



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

Your lips, My spouse, drop like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


She shall be brought to the king in clothing of needlework; the virgins, her companions after her, shall be brought to You.

And you took your embroidered dresses and covered them, and you have given to their face My oil and My incense.


the festal apparel and the outer garments; and the mantles, and the purses;

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


And on a certain day, Herod sat on his throne, dressed in royal clothing, and made a speech to them.

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed with soft clothing? Behold, those in splendid clothing and being in luxury are in kings' palaces.


And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.



But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, they who wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.


For if there comes a gold-fingered man in fancy clothing into your assembly, and if there also comes in a poor man in shabby clothing, and if you have respect to him who has the fancy clothing and say to him, You sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, You stand there, or sit here under my footstool;