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Luke 12:33
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Luke 12:33
33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
33Sell that yee haue, and giue almes: *prouide your selues bagges which waxe not old, a treasure in the heauens that faileth not, where no theefe approcheth, neither moth corrupteth.
- Mat. 6.20.
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DEFINED WORDS
Luke 12:33
To transfer or give over for a price; to betray or surrender, including giving oneself over to evil, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Gifts of money or goods given to relieve the poor.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To consider beforehand; to make provision or take thought for.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To grow, increase, or become.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Advanced in age; having existed a long time; former or belonging to an earlier time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Valuable things laid up; also to store or keep as precious.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The small winged creature called a moth, known in the KJV for consuming or corrupting garments and other perishable things.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 33
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Open the full verse study21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
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Open the full verse study34Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
35And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
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Open the full verse study45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
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Open the full verse study22Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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Open the full verse study9And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
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Open the full verse study21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
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Open the full verse study17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
18That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
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Open the full verse study6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
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Open the full verse study2How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
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Open the full verse study1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
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Open the full verse study6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
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Open the full verse study41But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
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