capitalism
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24No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
11to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you, 12and to walk honestly with those who are outside, and to desire nothing belonging to another.
18And this is a gift from God: that every man to whom God has given wealth and resources, and to whom he has granted the ability to consume these, may enjoy his portion, and may find joy in his labors. 19And then he will not fully remember the days of his life, because God occupies his heart with delights.
9Open your mouth, declare what is just, and do justice to the indigent and the poor.
16She has considered a field and bought it. From the fruit of her own hands, she has planted a vineyard. 17She has wrapped her waist with fortitude, and she has strengthened her arm. 18She has tasted and seen that her tasks are good; her lamp shall not be extinguished at night.
24And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for the wealthy to enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
23Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say to you, that the wealthy shall enter with difficulty into the kingdom of heaven.
4Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without. 5You say, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the Sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales, 6in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?” 7The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all their works.
10Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat.
12And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.
4The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.