Verse 9

Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 6:6 : 6 But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
  • Ps 37:16 : 16 The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.
  • Jer 35:7 : 7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.
  • Num 16:14 : 14 And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?