Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
32"Dismiss your fears, little flock: your Father finds a pleasure in giving you the Kingdom.
34For where your wealth is stored, there also will your heart be.
Cross References
Matthew 19:21"If you desire to be perfect," replied Jesus, "go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; and come, follow me."
Luke 12:21"So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God."
Luke 18:22On receiving this answer Jesus said to him, "There is still one thing wanting in you. Sell everything you possess and give the money to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; and then come, follow me."
Acts 2:45They sold their lands and other property, and distributed the proceeds among all, according to every one's necessities.
2 Corinthians 8:2how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase their generous liberality.
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:23-41
Inordinate Care Reproved. 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that… Read the whole commentary →