Bible verses about "lottery" | Riverside

²³ I tell you truly whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his mind, but believes that what he says will be, will have it. ²⁴ For this reason I say to you, all things whatever that you pray and ask for, believe that you have obtained them and you will have them.

⁴⁷ That servant who knew his master's will and is not ready, and has not done according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes. ⁴⁸ But he who did not know and yet has done things worthy of lashes will be beaten with few. From every one to whom much was given, much will be required, and from him to whom they have committed much, men will ask the more.

²⁸ He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, working with his own hands something good, so as to have something to share with any one in need.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel. ³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands provided for my needs and the needs of my companions. ³⁵ In all things I showed you that so laboring we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

²⁴ No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

³⁵ In all things I showed you that so laboring we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

⁵ Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry.

¹⁵ Do not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

¹⁵ He said to them, "See to it and be on your guard against every form of covetousness, for not even when one has a superabundance is his life from the things he owns."

¹² All things are lawful for me, but not everything is beneficial. All things are lawful, but I will not be overpowered by anything.

¹⁵ Do not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ for all that is in the world, the passions of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the show and pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world. ¹⁷ And the world is passing away with its passions. But he who does the will of God endures forever.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some men grasping for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pangs.

⁵ Let your lives be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have. For he has said, "I will not fail you nor will I forsake you."