神所要的祭就是憂傷的靈；神啊，憂傷痛悔的心，你必不輕看

約珥書 第二章
1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand--
你們要在錫安吹角，在我聖山吹出大聲。國中的居民都要發顫；因為耶和華的日子將到，已經臨近。

13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.
你們要撕裂心腸，不撕裂衣服。歸向耶和華─你們的神；因為他有恩典，有憐憫，不輕易發怒，有豐盛的慈愛，並且後悔不降所說的災。

17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, O LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?''
事奉耶和華的祭司要在廊子和祭壇中間哭泣，說：耶和華啊，求你顧惜你的百姓，不要使你的產業受羞辱，列邦管轄他們。為何容列國的人說：他們的神在哪裡呢﹖

詩篇 第五十一章
6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts ; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
你所喜愛的是內裡誠實；你在我隱密處，必使我得智慧。

10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
神啊，求你為我造清潔的心，使我裡面重新有正直的靈。

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
神所要的祭就是憂傷的靈；神啊，憂傷痛悔的心，你必不輕看。

哥林多後書 第六章
10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
似乎憂愁，卻是常常快樂的；似乎貧窮，卻是叫許多人富足的；似乎一無所有，卻是樣樣都有的。

馬太福音 第六章
6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
你禱告的時候，要進你的內屋，關上門，禱告你在暗中的父；你父在暗中察看，必然報答你。

9 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
不要為自己積儹財寶在地上；地上有蟲子咬，能銹壞，也有賊挖窟窿來偷。

20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
只要積儹財寶在天上；天上沒有蟲子咬，不能銹壞，也沒有賊挖窟窿來偷。

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
因為你的財寶在哪裡，你的心也在那裡。