For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?” He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
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