Proverbs 13:7

¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹²I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’ ¹³But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹⁷Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

²⁴There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

⁹Better is he who is little known, and has a servant, than he who honors himself and lacks bread.

²¹So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

⁷But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.

¹¹Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

⁵Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

¹⁰as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.