If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at [the] right [hand] of God.

Now set your hearts and souls to seek after the Lord your God; arise, and build a sanctuary to your God, to carry in the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord.

Moreover, because I took pleasure in the house of my God, I have gold and silver which I have procured for myself, and behold, I have given them to the house of my God over and above, beyond what I have prepared for the holy house.

Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies. If wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.

For he has hoped in Me, and I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he has known My name.

Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Turn away my eyes that I may not behold vanity; revive me in Your way.

If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

In the day of prosperity live joyfully, and consider in the day of adversity. Consider, [I say], God also has caused the one to agree with the other for [this] reason, that man should find nothing after him.

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block unto Me, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

For I am hard pressed by the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

And their tombs are their houses forever, [even] their tabernacles to all generations; they have called their lands after their own names.

This their way is an offense to them; yet afterwards men will commend their sayings. Pause.

But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when He shall receive me. Pause.

For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him.

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal;

And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

So the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by the mammon of unrighteousness, so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

Therefore if you were not faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is genuine?

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself splendidly every day.

and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and would lick his sores.

And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who are mindful of earthly things.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.