Quotes About Values

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

And if you have not been faithful with the belongings of another, who will give you belongings of your own?

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

“All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.

Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

I have not coveted anyoneís silver or gold or clothing.

you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.

Doesnít nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),