The Comfort Peddler Industrial Complex

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalms 45:11, Septuagint

Psalm 46:10 in English Bibles

And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of the heavens is subject to violence, and the violent seize it.

Matthew 11:12, Berean Literal Bible

Woe to you⁺, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you⁺ are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside they are full of bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:27, Berean Literal Bible

Thus also on the outside you⁺ indeed appear righteous to men, but on the inside you⁺ are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 23:28, Berean Literal Bible

And having called ten of his servants, he gave to them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business until I come.’

Luke 19:13, Berean Literal Bible

And He said to them, “But now, the one having a purse, let him take [it], and likewise a bag; and the one having no sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one.

Luke 22:36, Berean Literal Bible