Mark 12:38-44

As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets!  They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers.  They will receive the greater condemnation.”
He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.  A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny.  Then he called his disciples and said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury.  For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Additional Texts

Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.  So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.  But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.  And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:1-5

See, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.  Each will be like a hiding-place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.  Then the eyes of those who have sight will not be closed, and the ears of those who have hearing will listen.  The minds of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongues of stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.  A fool will no longer be called noble, nor a villain be said to be honorable.  For fools speak folly, and their minds plot iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.  The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.  But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.
Isaiah 32:1-8

Other Lectionary Texts

Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
I Kings 17:8-16
Psalms 127 & 146
Mark 12:38-44
Hebrews 9:24-28

Texts are from the NRSV.