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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. |
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Don't store them up |
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Hoard them |
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Stash them away |
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Seeking to become richer and richer. |
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Jesus told this parable: |
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The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. |
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READER 4 |
Plentiful harvest. |
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He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' |
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No place to store it all. |
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This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. |
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I'll tear down my barns |
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And build bigger ones. |
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Tear down my barns |
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And build bigger ones. |
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Bigger ones. |
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Bigger. |
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More. |
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Much. |
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And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." ' |
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But God said to him, 'You fool! |
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You blind man. |
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You idiot! |
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This very night your life will be demanded from you. |
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Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' |
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This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself |
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But is not rich toward God. |
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READER 3 |
Rich toward God. |
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READER 1 |
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, |
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Where moth and rust destroy, |
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And where thieves break in and steal. |
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But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, |
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Treasures in heaven. |
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Where moth and rust do not destroy, |
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And where thieves do not break in and steal. |
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For where your treasure is, |
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There your heart will be also. |
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For where your treasure is, |
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There your heart will be also. |
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The eye is the lamp of the body. |
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The eye is like a window through which the light shines in. |
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If your eyes are good, |
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If your spiritual vision is sound, |
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Your whole body will be full of light. |
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But if your eyes are bad, |
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Your spiritual vision is faulty |
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Off track. |
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Influenced by greed. |
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Your whole body will be full of darkness. |
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If then the light within you is darkness, |
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How great is that darkness! |
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No one can serve two masters. |
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Two masters. |
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Either he will hate the one and love the other, |
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Or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. |
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No one can serve two masters. |
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Two masters. |
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You cannot serve both God and Money. |
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God |
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And Mammon. |
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God |
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And materialism. |
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READER 1 |
No one can serve two masters. |
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You cannot serve two masters. |
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You cannot serve both God and Money. |
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Serve God! |
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