KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked: Revelation 3:17, 18 Laying wait for Laodicians today is the same snare. This is a timeless trap, the same one Satan set for Jesus. His bait was 'the world' and the selling price: people's souls. The treacherous King of Sodom tried this trick too, telling Abraham: Give me the persons and take the goods to thyself. Genesis 14:21 Lot listened and later "pitched his tent temporarily toward Sodom." The tent stakes took root and footers finally clutched four feet down into Sodom's center-city soil. Lot's title deed came with a Compromising Christian Clause: "Beware of practicing your righteousness before men"(NIV). The building code called for closets for Christians, not Sodomites. He began "without the gate," but couldn't wait and took the bait. Once "in the gate," it was too late. He lost his loot, his wife to boot. Lot's "substance was great," but "fire and brimstone" have a way of changing substance to smoke and spouses to salt. This too will be the lot of the 'New' Christian who lays up his treasures on earth. The 'New' Christian Codebooks call 'righteousness' into the closet, while parading 'prosperity'. They substitute 'the goods' for 'being good', leaving hands too full to 'take up the cross' and heads too high with a corruptible crown to care about a "crown of righteousness."

KJV

NASB, NIV et al Beware of practicing your righteousness before wealth and prosperity (NIV) finds life, prosperity (NIV) men wealth

do not your alms before men

Matt. 6:1

riches

Col. 2:2

Prov. 8:18 riches and Prov. 21:21 findeth life,

righteousness righteousness