But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

Yet He filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have acquired me this wealth.

But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you power to acquire wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as it is this day.

Jehovah makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.

I have made the earth, man, and the animals on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed right to Me.

And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant. And I have also given him the beasts of the field to serve him.

And now, hear, O our God, the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the sake of the Lord.

O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?