(Matthew) And the promises of the Sermon on the Mount are anticipated in several places: "And they who have died in grief shall arise in joy; and they who were poor for the Lord's sake shall be made rich; and they who are put to death for the Lord's sake shall awake to life".
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary.
There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust conceal'd; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air.
There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Be rich, stop acting rich.
Indeed, if you were to distill Jesus's social teachings, it was about the reversal of the social order: "The first shall be last, and the last shall be first". The rich shall be made poor, the poor shall be made rich.
25. 'In the present chapter', he writes, 'we shall be concerned with the in the plural: the inhabitants of London, the sons of rich men, and so on.
There shall be no more excuses for those who ignore the latest and greatest science about the fascinating, rich, and deep emotional lives of other animals.
