Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.
That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Thou sayest I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
