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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

your pleasures. You adulterous people, don't you know that
friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone
who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy

of God. (James, 4:1-4)

Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we
shall see face to face [in the hereafter]. Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (1
Corinthians, 13:12)

"There was a rich man who... lived in luxury every day. At
his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores
and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table... The
time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him

to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.
In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw
Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side... Abraham said,
'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good
things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is com-
forted here and you are in agony.'" (Luke, 16:19-25)

"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where
moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven [in
the hereafter], where moths and rust do not destroy and
where thieves do not break in and steal, because where your
treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew, 6:19-21)

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles [in the world] to

keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war
against the soul. Continue to live such upright lives among
the Gentiles... (1 Peter, 2:11-12)

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