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6:17-19 Charge to the Rich. The charge directly to rich believers may seem unexpected in this place. However, it provides a corrective to the wrong view of wealth seen in the false teachers (see notes on vv. 2b-10). Furthermore, the downplaying of riches by stressing that they are merely for "this present age" appropriately follows the moving description of appearing before God on the final day (vv. 15-16). The call for the wealthy to use their wealth to prepare for the future either means that how they use their wealth demonstrates whether they are saved, or that they should seek for greater reward in heaven, or both.