4 Do not wear yourself out to gain wealth.+

Stop and show understanding.*

23 After looking around, Jesus said to his disciples: “How difficult it will be for those with money to enter into the Kingdom of God!”+

24 Jesus looked at him and said: “How difficult it will be for those having money to make their way into the Kingdom of God!+

9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare+ and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge men into destruction and ruin.+

10 For Deʹmas+ has forsaken me because he loved the present system of things, and he has gone to Thes·sa·lo·niʹca, Cresʹcens to Ga·laʹti·a, Titus to Dal·maʹtia.