Isaiah 3 and jewelry...

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Originally Posted by Maximilian

Jesus would affirm the same, or maybe borrow the illustration.

The weightier matters are of the heart, the internal motive, the inside. The valuable part of a man is not where he comes from, who is father is, how much money he has, what he looks like -- it's what he is, determined by his heart. Our richness and value, our investments, they should all be based on the redeemed heart within us.

Those ways you use gold and silver -- sure, they can be used figuratively.

Let me hasten to afirm that I certainly believe the inward is more important than the outward...I just don't think we can call for such a radical separation between the two.