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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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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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Rich toward God.

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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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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.

ALL

Serve God!