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Proverbs 2:2-5
by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,indeed, if you call out for discernment– raise your voice for understanding–if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
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Colossians 2:3
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.
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Hebrews 11:24-26
By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,choosing rather to be ill- treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.
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Philippians 3:7-9
But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.
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Luke 14:33
In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
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Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Proverbs 23:23
Acquire truth and do not sell it– wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
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Luke 18:23-24
But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was extremely wealthy.When Jesus noticed this, he said,“ How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
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Matthew 19:29
And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
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Matthew 19:27
Then Peter said to him,“ Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”
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Isaiah 55:1
“ Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
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Revelation 3:18
take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!
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1 Corinthians 2 9-1 Corinthians 2 10
But just as it is written,“ Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
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Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him,“ If you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
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Acts 2:44-47
All who believed were together and held everything in common,and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.
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Matthew 13:24
He presented them with another parable:“ The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.
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Luke 19:6-8
So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully.And when the people saw it, they all complained,“ He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord,“ Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!”
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Colossians 3:3-4
for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ( who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
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Hebrews 10:34
For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.
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Acts 4:32-35
The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.For there was no one needy among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds from the salesand placing them at the apostles’ feet. The proceeds were distributed to each, as anyone had need.
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Proverbs 17:16
Of what use is money in the hand of a fool, since he has no intention of acquiring wisdom?
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Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.
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John 6:35
Jesus said to them,“ I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.
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Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
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Proverbs 18:1
One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.