Luke 18:24 Cross References - ECB

²⁴ And Yah Shua sees that he becomes exceeding sorrowful; and he says, How difficultly they who have riches enter the sovereigndom of Elohim!

¹⁰ And so be it, when Yah Veh your Elohim brings you into the land he oathed to your fathers - to Abraham, to Yischaq and to Yaaqov, to give you great and goodly cities which you built not, ¹¹ and houses full of all goods which you filled not and hewn wells which you hewed not, vineyards and olive trees which you planted not; and eat and satiate; ¹² then guard, lest you forget Yah Veh, who brought you from the land of Misrayim, from the house of servants.

¹¹ Guard that you not forget Yah Veh your Elohim, by not guarding his misvoth and his judgments and his statutes which I misvah you this day: ¹² lest when you eat and satiate and build goodly houses and settle; ¹³ and when your oxen and your flocks abound and your silver and your gold abound and all you have abounds; ¹⁴ and your heart lifts and you forget Yah Veh your Elohim who brought you from the land of Misrayim from the house of servants: ¹⁵ who carried you through that great and awesome wilderness of seraph serpents and scorpions and thirst - where there was no water: who brought water from the rock of flint; ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers knew not - to humble you and to test you - to well-please you at your latter end; ¹⁷ and you said in your heart, My force and the might of my hand worked me this valour.

³ because the wicked halal the desire of his soul and bless the greedy whom Yah Veh scorns.

⁵ they are neither in toil of man nor touched as humans. ⁶ So pomp chokes them; violence shrouds them as a masculine garment: ⁷ their eyes stand out with fat; they surpass the imagination of the heart: ⁸ they blaspheme and word evil concerning oppression; they word loftily: ⁹ they set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth. ¹⁰ So his people return here; and waters of fulness wring out to them. ¹¹ And they say, How knows El? Is there knowledge in Elyon? ¹² Behold, these are the wicked, - eternally serene who increase in valuables.

²⁸ He who confides in his riches, falls; and the just blossom as a leaf.

¹¹ The wealth of the rich is his city of strength - as a lofted wall in his own imagination.

⁹ - lest I satiate and deny you and say, Who is Yah Veh? Or lest I become dispossessed and steal and take the name of my Elohim.

³¹ O generation, see the word of Yah Veh. Am I a wilderness to Yisra El? A land of darkness? Why say my people, We ramble on - we come no more to you?

⁵ I go to the great and word to them - for they know the way of Yah Veh and the judgment of their Elohim: surely these altogether broke the yoke; they tore the bonds.

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THE RICH AND THE SOVEREIGNDOM
So Yah Shua says to his disciples, Amen! I word to you, That a rich man difficultly enters the sovereigndom of the heavens. ²⁴ And again I word to you, It is easier for a rope ^* to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the sovereigndom of Elohim. ^{*rope: see Lamsa 25} When his disciples hear, they are extremely astonished, wording, Who then can be saved?

²⁶ And the sovereign becomes extremely sorrowful; yet for sake of his oath, and for the sakes of them who repose with him, he wills to not set her aside.

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YAH SHUA AND RICHES
And Yah Shua looks around and words to his disciples, How difficultly they who have riches enter the sovereigndom of Elohim! ²⁴ - and the disciples astonish at his words. And again Yah Shua answers them, wording, Children, how difficult for them who confide in riches to enter the sovereigndom of Elohim! ²⁵ It is easier for a rope ^* to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the sovereigndom of Elohim. ^{*see Lamsa 26} And they superabundantly astonish - wording among themselves, Who can be saved? ²⁷ And Yah Shua, looking upon them, words, With humanity it is impossible, but not with Elohim: for with Elohim all are possible.

²⁶ For you see your calling brothers, how that not many wise after the flesh, not many able, not many well-birthed: ²⁷ But Elohim selects the foolish of the cosmos to shame the wise; and Elohim selects the frailties of the cosmos to shame the mighty;

⁹ Now I cheer - not that you were sorrowed; but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you sorrowed toward Elohim so that you have no loss by us. ¹⁰ For sorrow toward Elohim works repentance to salvation - unrequitable: but the sorrow of the cosmos works death.

⁹ And whoever wills to be rich falls into testing and a snare; and into many mindless and injurious pantings, which sink humanity in ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For befriending silver is the root of all evil: which, while some reach for, strayed from the trust and pierced themselves through with many griefs.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brothers, Selects not Elohim the poor of this cosmos rich in trust and heirs of the sovereigndom which he pre-evangelized to them who love him? ⁶ But you dishonor the poor. Is it not the rich who overpower you? And drag you to the judgment? ⁷ Blaspheme they not that good name by which you are called?

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TREASURING TREASURES
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries coming upon you. ² Your riches putrefy and your garments become motheaten: ³ your gold and silver rust; and their rust becomes a witness against you to consume your flesh as fire. You treasured in the final days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the workers who ingathered your regions - whom you cheated, cries out: and the cries of them who harvest enter the ears of Yah Veh Sabaoth. ⁵ You indulged on the earth and luxuriated; you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter; ⁶ you condemned and murdered the just; and he opposes you not.