Chapter 10
Concerning Treasures
Verse 1: “Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in to take it all, | Matthew 6:19
2 but build your treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and then thieves do not break in and plunder it. | Matthew 6:20
3 For where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.” | Matthew 6:21
The Parable of the Rich Fool
4 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, make my brother divide the inheritance with me.” | Luke 12:13
5 But he said to him, “Friend, who told you it was my job to be a judge or arbitrator between you two?” | Luke 12:14
6 And he said to them, “Take care! Guard yourself against all kinds of greed, for one’s prosperity is not measured in the abundance of things that they possess.” | Luke 12:15
7 Then he spoke of a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced many abundant crops. | Luke 12:16
8 And he debated to himself, ‘What am I going I do, for I have no room to store my crops?’ | Luke 12:17
9 Then he said, ‘I shall do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and into them I will store the harvest and my wealth. | Luke 12:18
10 And I will say to myself, now you have plenty of goods put by for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ | Luke 12:19
11 But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight, your very life is being demanded back from you. And as for everything you have prepared, whose will they be?’ | Luke 12:20
12 So it is with those who keep wealth for themselves but do not share their prosperity with my Father. | Luke 12:21
13 Wretched is the body that depends upon the world, and wretched is the soul that is dependent on these two.” | Gospel of Thomas 87
Do Not Worry
14 “Therefore I tell you, stop obsessing over your daily life, what you will eat or drink, or about how your body looks, what you're going to wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? | Matthew 6:25
15 Look at the birds, for they neither plant nor harvest nor store into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more worthy than they? | Matthew 6:26
16 And who among you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to your lifespan? | Matthew 6:27
17 And why are you anxious about clothing? Think about the flowers adorned on the fields, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, | Matthew 6:28
18 yet I tell you, that not even Solomon in all his magnificence was clothed like one of these. | Matthew 6:29
19 But if my Father so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and gone tomorrow to be thrown into the oven, won't clothe you even more; you of little faith? | Matthew 6:30
20 Therefore do not worry and be overly-anxious saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ | Matthew 6:31
21 For everyone rich or poor seek all these things, and therefore make sure your neighbour is not bereft of all these things also. | Matthew 6:32
22 As in doing so, you are seeking the kingdom of my Father and his righteousness, and he will give you even greater things as well. | Matthew 6:33
23 So then, do not worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow can worry about itself. Today’s trouble is enough for today. | Matthew 6:34
24 He who has realised the world (for what it is) has found the body, but he who has found the body has transcended the world.” | Gospel of Thomas 80
Judging Others
25 “If you don't want to be judged, don't judge others. If you don't want to be condemned, don't condemn them. If you forgive, you’ll be forgiven in return; | Luke 6:37
26 give, and it shall be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured onto your lap. For everything you do to others, will be done to you. | Luke 6:38
27 Why do you see the splinter in your neighbor’s eye yet you remain blind to the beam of wood in your own eye? | Matthew 7:3
28 Or how can you tell to your neighbor, ‘Let me remove the splinter out of your eye,’ while the beam is in your own eye? | Matthew 7:4
29 You hypocrite, remove the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your neighbor’s eye.” | Matthew 7:5
Profaning the Holy
30 “Whoever knows the all, but fails to know themselves is completely deficient. | Gospel of Thomas 67
31 Do not waste what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, otherwise they will trample them under their feet, as they turn around and tear you to pieces.” | Matthew 7:6
Perseverance in Prayer
32 And he said to them, “Suppose that one of you has a neighbour, and you go to them in the middle of the night and say, ‘Please lend me three loaves of bread, | Luke 11:5
33 because a friend of mine has arrived from a journey, and I have nothing to place before him.’ | Luke 11:6
34 A bad tree full of darkness will answer from their abode, ‘Do not bother me; my door is now shut and locked, and I am with my children in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’ | Luke 11:7
35 But a good tree full of light will be there for their neighbour and will answer the door at whatever time it is and give whatever they have.”
Ask, Search, Knock
36 “So I tell to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep searching, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you. | Luke 11:9
37 For whomever asks will receive, and whomever searches will find, and whomever knocks, the door will be opened. | Luke 11:10
38 Which one of you that if your child came to you hungry and asked for bread, would give a stone? | Matthew 7:9
39 Or if your child asks for a fish, would give them a snake? | Matthew 7:10
40 Or if the child asks for an egg, would give them a scorpion? | Luke 11:12
41 If, then, the evil one, knows how to give these bad gifts to his children, how much more will my Father in heaven give good things to those who do his will?” | Matthew 7:11