Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23
Psalms 90:3-6, 12-14, 17
Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
Luke 12:13-21
Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23
(2) Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity (21) For when someone labors in wisdom, and doctrine, and prudence, he leaves behind what he has obtained to one who is idle. So this, too, is emptiness and a great burden (22) For how can a man benefit from all his labor and affliction of spirit, by which he has been tormented under the sun (23) All his days have been filled with sorrows and hardships; neither does he rest his mind, even in the night. And is this not emptiness
Psalms 90:3-6, 12-14, 17
(3) For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word (4) He will overshadow you with his shoulders, and you will hope under his wings (5) His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night (6) before the arrow flying in the day, before the troubles that wander in the darkness, nor of invasion and the midday demon (12) With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone (13) You will walk over the asp and the king serpent, and you will trample the lion and the dragon (14) Because he has hoped in me, I will free him. I will protect him because he has known my name
Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
(1) Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God (2) Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth (3) For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God (4) When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory (5) Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols (9) Do not lie to one another. Strip yourselves of the old man, with his deeds (10) and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him (11) where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, servant nor free. Instead, Christ is everything, in everyone
Luke 12:13-21
(13) And someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me. (14) But he said to him, “Man, who has appointed me as judge or arbitrator over you? (15) So he said to them: “Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person’s life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses. (16) Then he spoke to them using a comparison, saying: “The fertile land of a certain wealthy man produced crops (17) And he thought within himself, saying: ‘What should I do? For I have nowhere to gather together my crops. (18) And he said: ‘This is what I will do. I will tear down my barns and build larger ones. And into these, I will gather all the things that have been grown for me, as well as my goods (19) And I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many goods, stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, and be cheerful. (20) But God said to him: ‘Foolish one, this very night they require your soul of you. To whom, then, will those things belong, which you have prepared? (21) So it is with him who stores up for himself, and is not wealthy with God.
