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In reply to the discussion: "Vow of Poverty" - the $7-million beach house of Rev. Mike Huckabee [View all]No matter which version he owns, looks like somebody didn't read his Bobble:
¶ Lay not vp for your selues treasures vpon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where theeues breake thorow, and steale.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
- American Standard Version (1901)
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
- Basic English Bible
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
- Darby Bible
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
- Webster's Bible
Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth, where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- Weymouth Bible
Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
- World English Bible
Nile ye tresoure to you tresouris in erthe, where ruste and mouyte destrieth, and where theues deluen out and stelen;
- Wycliffe Bible
`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Why don't fat cats like Huckabee and Robertson ever rail against greed and avarice? Oh...yeah...because they are greedy and avaricious!
But the rest of us are the real sinners, right?
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It is true most don't take such a vow, but Matthew 6:24 is not ambiguous on the subject
Major Nikon
Feb 2015
#12
Well, Jesus disagrees with you, because if verse 24 wasn't enough, 25-33 drive the point home
Major Nikon
Feb 2015
#46
I wonder what the citizens of Arkansas think of him moving to no-state-income-tax Florida
Tanuki
Feb 2015
#8