Ganância
A ganância é raiz de todos os males. A Bíblia alerta contra a cobiça, o acúmulo egoísta e o amor ao dinheiro, chamando-nos ao contentamento e à confiança em Deus.
O amor ao dinheiro
O amor ao dinheiro é raiz de todos os males. Quem quer enriquecer cai em tentação, armadilha e desejos insensatos.
For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, because they desire it, have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.
But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction.
"No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.
Put Off the Old Behavior
Therefore put to death what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
Contentamento
Tende cuidado e guardai-vos de toda espécie de ganância. A vida de um homem não consiste na abundância dos bens que possui.
And he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not even when someone has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions."
For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
The Sermon on the Mount: Treasure in Heaven
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming insect destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.
Do not tire in order to become rich;
out of your understanding, may you desist.
Wealth gained from haste will dwindle,
but he who gathers little by little will increase it.
Riqueza ilusória
As riquezas são passageiras. Quem ama o dinheiro nunca terá o suficiente. O contentamento com o que se tem é verdadeira riqueza.
There is Never Enough Money to Satisfy
Whoever loves money is not satisfied with money,
and whoever loves wealth is not satisfied with profit.
This also is vanity!
Just as he came from his mother’s womb naked, he will depart just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.
All day he craves a craving,
but the righteous will give and not hold back.
For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are servants of God, busily engaged in this very thing.
Incline my heart to your testimonies,
and not to dishonest gain.
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