The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. It
is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to
enter the kingdom of God.
These are well-known
biblical truths, and yet notwithstanding the accumulating evidence that
possessions and happiness are quite unrelated, the stampede to acquire as much
as possible as quickly as possible never abates.
Three of these next
ten verses are about money: those who have it, those who don’t, and those who
are trying to get it.