Go to now, ye rich men, weep
and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and
your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is
cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and
shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped
Luke
16:19-31 There was a certain rich man,
which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every
day: And there was a certain beggar
named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with
the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came
and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the
beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the
rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his
eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his
bosom. And he cried and said, Father
Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of
his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this
flame. But Abraham said, Son,
remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and
likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art
tormented. And beside all this, between
us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass
from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come
from thence. Then he said, I pray thee
therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that
he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of
torment. Abraham saith unto him, They
have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father
Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they
hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though
one rose from the dead.