Bible verses about "retirement" | ABU

²⁸ For who of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down, and count the cost, whether he has sufficient to finish it?

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered and still do minister to the saints.

³³ Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses that wax not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where a thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

¹⁷ Charge those who are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor place their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who gives us all things richly for enjoyment; ¹⁸ that they do good, be rich in good works, be free in imparting, willing to communicate; ¹⁹ laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

⁶ being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal. ²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying: The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. ¹⁷ And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have not where to store my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said: This will I do; I will pull down my barns, and will build greater; and there I will store all my fruits and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him: Fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall those things be, which thou didst provide? ²¹ So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith;

²³ And it came to pass, when the days of his ministration were completed, that he departed to his own house.

²⁴ But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.