Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁶ Now godliness with contentment is a means of great gain. ⁷ For we brought-in nothing to the world; it is clear that neither can we bring-out anything. ⁸ But having sustenance and coverings, with these things we shall be content. ⁹ But the ones wanting to be-rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge^[a] people into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love-of-money is a root^[b] of all evils— aspiring-to which, some were led-astray^[c] from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

But You, O Man of God, Fight The Good Fight And Keep The Command Unspotted

¹¹ But you, O man of God, be fleeing these things, and be pursuing righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. ¹² Be fighting the good fight of faith. Take-hold-of eternal life, into which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. ¹³ I command you in the sight of God, the One giving-life-to all things, and Christ Jesus, the One having testified the good confession before^[d] Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴ that you keep the commandment unspotted, above-reproach, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ which in His^[e] own times, the blessed and only Ruler will show^[f]— the King of the ones being-kings^[g] and Lord of the ones being-lords^[h], ¹⁶ the only One having immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, Whom none of mankind saw nor is able to see, to Whom be honor and eternal dominion, amen.

Command The Rich To Be Rich In Good Works And To Take Hold of Real Life

¹⁷ Be commanding the ones rich in the present age not to be-high-minded, nor to have put-hope on the uncertainty of riches, but upon God, the One richly granting us all things for enjoyment; ¹⁸ to be working-good, to be-rich in good^[i] works, to be generous, sharing ones, ¹⁹ treasuring-up for themselves a good foundation for the future^[j], in order that they may take-hold-of real life.

The Rich Man And Lazarus: What God Values Is What Matters

¹⁹ “Now there was a certain rich man. And he was dressing himself in purple and fine-linen, radiantly enjoying-himself daily. ²⁰ And a certain poor man, Lazarus by name, had been put at his gate— having been covered-with-sores, ²¹ and desiring to be filled-to-satisfaction by the things falling from the table of the rich man. Even^[a] indeed the dogs coming were licking his sores. ²² And it came about that the poor man died and he was carried-away by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And having lifted-up his eyes in Hades while being in torments, he sees Abraham from a-distance, and Lazarus in his bosom^[b]. ²⁴ And he, having called, said, ‘Father Abraham, have-mercy-on me and send Lazarus in order that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool-off my tongue, because I am suffering-pain in this flame’. ²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus the bad things. But now, here, he is being comforted and you are suffering-pain. ²⁶ And in all these regions, a great chasm has been fixed^[c] between us and you^[d], so that the ones wanting to cross from here to you are not able, nor may they cross-over from there to us’. ²⁷ And he said, ‘Then I ask you, father, that you send him to the house of my father— ²⁸ for I have five brothers— so that he may solemnly-warn them in order that they also might not come to this place of torment’. ²⁹ But Abraham says, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them listen-to them’. ³⁰ But the one said, ‘No, father Abraham. But if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent’. ³¹ But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen-to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises-up from the dead’”.