But safety shall fail them, for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

And this shall turn to me for salvation, for fraud shall have no entrance before Him.

For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

Alas! Destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity!

The sinners in Zion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give [as] an exchange for his soul?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul?

Or what shall a man give [as] an equivalent for his soul?

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

So [is] he who accumulates treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some [by] aspiring have strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days.