Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Similar Old Testament Verses
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:4-5
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4
… for riches do not last forever …
Proverbs 27:24
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8
You shall have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:3
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:5
Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings. For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.
Isaiah 51:7-8
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isaiah 51:6
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart…”
Joel 2:12
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