Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Genesis 8:15-22 and Matthew 6:19-24 (NIV)


Genesis 8:15-22
15  Then God said to Noah,
16  “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17  Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
18  So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
19  All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20  Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
21  The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22  “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night
will never cease.”

Matthew 6:19-24

19  “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 
20  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 
21  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22  “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 
23  But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24  “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

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