Bible verses about "shopping" | Etheridge

¹¹ If, therefore, in the wealth of unrighteousness you have not been faithful, the truth to you who will confide?

²⁴ No man can serve two lords; for the one he will hate, and the other he will love, or the one he will honour, and the other he will neglect: you cannot serve Aloha and riches.

¹⁷ The rich of this world instruct, that they be not uplifted in their minds, nor be trustful upon riches which have no security, but upon Aloha the living, who giveth to us all abundantly for our comfort; ¹⁸ and that they perform good works, and become rich in welldoings, and be ready to give and to communicate, ¹⁹ and lay for themselves a good foundation for that which is to be, that they may lay hold on the true life.

³³ Sell your substance, and give alms: make to you bags which become not old, and a treasure which is not transient, in the heavens, where the thief does not approach, and the moth destroys not. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures in the earth, a place where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where no moth and no rust corrupt, and where thieves do not dig through and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there also your hearts are.

¹⁵ And he said to his disciples, Beware of all avarice: for life is not in the abundance of riches. ¹⁶ And he spake a parable to them: The ground of a certain rich man produced him much provisions. ¹⁷ And he thought within himself, and said, What shall I do? for I have not where to collect my provisions. ¹⁸ And he said, This will I do: I will destroy my house of stores, and will build and enlarge it; and there will I collect all my provender and my good things: ¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, My soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years: be at ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ²⁰ But Aloha said to him, Reasonless (man)! [Chasir reyona, wanting reason.] this night thy soul they shall require of thee; and then, (the things) which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? ²¹ So is he who layeth up to himself treasures, and towards Aloha is not rich.

¹⁰ For the root of all evil is the love of money; and there are who have coveted it, and from the faith have erred, and have made themselves enter into many sorrows.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor any thing which is in it; for whoever loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For every thing that is in the world, is the lust of the body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of the world. These which are not of the Father, but they are from the world itself. ¹⁷ And the world passeth, (both) it and its lusts; but he who doeth the will of Aloha, continueth for ever.

⁵ Let not your mind love money; but let whatever ye have suffice you: for the Lord hath said, I will not abandon thee, nor withhold from thee support.[Withhold from thee hands; that is, help, strength, &c.]