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a Matthew 23:1-12 (…The greatest among you will be your servant. All who
exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be
exalted.)

b James 5:1-3 (Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries
that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-
eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence
against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for
the last days.)
1 Timothy 6:6-10, Proverbs 13:7

c Matthew 6:19-21 (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where
moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes
and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.)

d Proverbs 13:8 (Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life, but the poor get no
threats.)

e James 2:5 (Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen
the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he
has promised to those who love him?)
Luke 18:22