Bible verses about "economy" | Moffatt

⁶ He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites — as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁷ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts. ⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

¹ Come now, you rich men, weep and shriek over your impending miseries! ² your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten; ³ your gold and silver lie rusted over, and their rust will be evidence against you, it will devour your flesh like fire. [Moved to the end of 5:1] You have been storing up treasure in the very last days; ⁴ See, the wages of which you have defrauded the workmen who mowed your fields call out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;