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James 5.1-6

Warning to Rich Oppressors

5Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. ²Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. ³Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure^* for the last days. ⁴Listen! The wages of the labourers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts on a day of slaughter. ⁶You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

⁹ Yet you have rejected us and abased us,
   and have not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰ You made us turn back from the foe,
   and our enemies have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You have made us like sheep for slaughter,
   and have scattered us among the nations.
¹² You have sold your people for a trifle,
   demanding no high price for them.

¹³ You have made us the taunt of our neighbours,
   the derision and scorn of those around us.
¹⁴ You have made us a byword among the nations,
   a laughing-stock^* among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my disgrace is before me,
   and shame has covered my face
¹⁶ at the words of the taunters and revilers,
   at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us,
   yet we have not forgotten you,
   or been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
   nor have our steps departed from your way,
¹⁹ yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals,
   and covered us with deep darkness.

Mark 9.41-50

⁴¹For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.

Temptations to Sin

42 ‘If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me,^* it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. ⁴³If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell,^* to the unquenchable fire.^* ⁴⁵And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.^*^,^* ⁴⁷And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,^* ⁴⁸where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.

49 ‘For everyone will be salted with fire.^* ⁵⁰Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it?^* Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.’