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    mammon


    1. 11If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to


    2. These two stories both have to do with "mammon" (money) and the


    3. " I rejected the god of mammon a long time ago


    4. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust


    5. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations


    6. Ye cannot serve God and mammon


    7. Luk 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations


    8. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? (Luk


    9. Mammon has not done what it promised and there exists in their hearts an emptiness that money, possessions and success cannot fill


    10. You can't serve both God and Mammon

    11. 11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 If you have not been faithful in that which is another's who will give you that which is your own?


    12. You aren't able to serve God and Mammon


    13. 5:40-7:27 And if any man will sue you through the law and takes away your shirt let him have your overcoat also; and whoever shall compel you to go one mile go with him two miles; Give to him who asks of you and from him who would borrow from you do not turn away; You all have heard that it has been said: You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy but I say to you love your enemies bless those who curse you do good to those who hate you and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you so that you all may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven because He makes his sun to rise on evil people and good people and sends rain on the just and on the unjust because if you all love those who love you what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you salute your brothers only what more do you do than others? Do not even the heathen do that? therefore be perfect even like your Father in Heaven who is perfect; be diligent so that you do not give your charity in front of men to be seen by them otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in Heaven; therefore do not sound a trumpet in front of you when you do your giving of charity like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets so that they may have the glory of men; truly I say to you they have their reward; but when you give charity do not let your left hand know what your right hand does so that your giving of charity may be in secret and your Father who sees secretly shall Himself reward you openly; and when you pray you shall not be as the hypocrites are because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men; truly I say to you they have their reward; but when you pray enter into your closet and when you have shut your door pray to your Father who is in secret and your Father who sees secretly shall reward you openly; and when you pray do not use vain repetitions like the heathen do because they think that they shall be heard from out of their long talks therefore do not be like them because your Father knows what things you have need before you ask Him therefore pray like this and in this manner: Our Father who is in Heaven let your name be holy; let your Kingdom come let your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven; give to us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil because Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory for ever; Amen; because if you all forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you but if you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses; also when you fast do not be like the hypocrites with a sad expression because they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men as fasting; truly I say to you they have their reward; but when you fast anoint your head and wash your face so that you do not appear to men to be fasting; but fast because your Father who is in secret and who sees secretly shall reward you openly; Do not lay up treasures on the Earth for your selves where moth and rust corrupts and where thieves break into and steal but lay up treasures in Heaven for your selves where neither moth nor rust corrupts and where thieves do not break through nor steal; because where your treasure is there will be your heart also; The light of the body is the eye therefore if your eye is wholesome your whole body shall be filled with light; but if your eye is corrupt your whole body shall be full of darkness; therefore if the light that is in you is darkness how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters because either he will hate one and love the other or he will hold to the one and despise the other; You cannot serve God and Mammon therefore I say to you have no fixation on thoughts about your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink nor even what you shall put on for your body


    14. There was a certain rich man who had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods and he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this thing about you? Give an account of your stewardship because you may no longer be a steward; then the steward said to himself: What shall I do? Because my lord takes away from me the stewardship; I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg; I am determined what I am to do so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may accept me into their houses; So he called everyone of his lord’s debtors to himself and said to the first: How much do you owe to my lord? And he said: A hundred measures of oil? And he said to him: Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty; then he said to another: And how much do you owe? And he said: A hundred measures of wheat; and he said to him: Take your bill and write eighty; and the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely because the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light; and I say to you Make for yourselves friends from the Mammon of unrighteousness so that when you fail they may accept you into everlasting dwellings; he who is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he who is unjust in the least is unjust also in much; If you therefore have not been faithful with the unrighteous Mammon who will commit the true riches to your trust? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters because either he will hate one and love the other otherwise he will hold to one and despise the other; You cannot serve God and Mammon; You are those who justify yourselves before men but God knows your hearts because what is highly regarded among men is abomination in the sight of God


    15. " If we desire then to serve both God and mammon it will be unprofitable for us


    16. And it is a powerful idolatry, for Mammon is not an


    17. Mammon was an evil agent of the Devil, with


    18. fell under the influence of Mammon


    19. Mammon the rest of the week without


    20. religions recognize the worship of Mammon is the

    21. ‘And the way they tried to bail out their daughter’s murderer at that! If the rope were to answer Suresh’s crime, what should be done to book Shanti’s people for their calumny? Well, to appease his lust for fame, how routinely Mehrotra subjects justice to multiple rapes! Why, won’t the police deliberately fail the prosecution for a price? How the politicians are wont to pull the strings to extricate the culprits of their class? Whither the public morality! The society seems hooked to Mammon, doesn’t it? How life itself has become a punishment to the decent! Oh, what life has come to be, but yet it goes on and that’s life


    22. ' You cannot sincerely worship God and at the same time wholeheartedly serve mammon


    23. Duggar lost no time in telling Suresh in jest the story of how Kubera of heaven turned into Mammon of earth


    24. The spiritual loyalties of the kingdom are incompatible with servility to materialistic mammon


    25. 1 One evening Simon Zelotes, commenting on one of Jesus' statements, said: "Master, what did you mean when you said today that many of the children of the world are wiser in their generation than are the children of the kingdom since they are skillful in making friends with the mammon of unrighteousness?" Jesus answered:


    26. I say to you who profess to be acquiring treasure in heaven: Take lessons from those who make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, and likewise so conduct your lives that you make eternal friendship with the forces of righteousness in order that, when all things earthly fail, you shall be joyfully received into the eternal habitations


    27. You cannot serve God and mammon


    28. Jesus could not have put it any better when He said that you could not serve both God and mammon in the parable of the Unjust Steward


    29. · Mammon is a spirit that seeks to capture your heart, loyalty and love


    30. When we talked on this area of Mammon, and giving, we said: it required that it came out of a heart that honored God, had faith in God, was thankful to God, and was willing

    31. You cannot serve God and Mammon


    32. He was unfaithful in unrighteous mammon – lacked generosity


    33. Rhea had two younger sisters that shared the same upbringing of their mother"s slipshod morality and undue respect for Mammon


    34. „Christian' faith and went down the road of serving Mammon


    35. the mammon of iniquity so that when you die they may receive you


    36. Jesus Christ with His divine understanding of every cranny of our human nature, understood that all men were not called to the religious life, that by far the vast majority were forced to live in the world, and, to a certain extent, for the world: and in this sentence He designed to give them a word of counsel, setting before them as exemplars in the religious life those very worshippers of Mammon who were of all men the least solicitous in matters


    37. I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day


    38. He said that no man can serve God and mammon


    39. I maintained a disgusted silence, for I had an inkling that Felicia would have been charmed with an outbreak from me about the iniquity of sacrificing young girls on the altar of Mammon


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    "mammon" definitions

    wealth regarded as an evil influence


    (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit