Luke 12:33
Good News Translation
Sell all your belongings and give the money to the poor. Provide for yourselves purses that don't wear out, and save your riches in heaven, where they will never decrease, because no thief can get to them, and no moth can destroy them.

New Revised Standard Version
Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

Contemporary English Version
Sell what you have and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves moneybags that never wear out. Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot destroy it.

New American Bible
Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

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Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

Sell.

Luke 18:22 Which when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is wanting to thee. Sell all whatever thou hast and give to the poor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.

Matthew 19:21 Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Acts 2:45 Their possessions and goods they sold and divided them to all, according as every one had need.

Acts 4:34,35 For neither was there any one needy among them. For as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the things they sold, . . .

2 Corinthians 8:2 That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.

provide.

Luke 16:9 And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

Haggai 1:6 You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.

Matthew 6:19-21 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. . . .

John 12:6 Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) . . .

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Context
Do Not Worry
32Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. 33Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. 34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.…
Cross References
Proverbs 13:7
One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Matthew 6:19
Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.

Matthew 6:20
But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.

Matthew 19:21
Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Luke 11:41
But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things are clean unto you.

Luke 12:21
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.

Luke 16:9
And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

Luke 18:22
Which when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is wanting to thee. Sell all whatever thou hast and give to the poor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.

Luke 12:32
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