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⁷The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

⁷Therefore, render to all whatever is owed. Taxes, to whom taxes is due; revenue, to whom revenue is due; fear, to whom fear is due; honor, to whom honor is due.

²¹The sinner will lend and not release, but the just one shows compassion and donates.

²⁸For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?

²⁶Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts. ²⁷For if you do not have the means to restore, what reason should there be for him to take the covering from your bed?

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.

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

²²The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.

¹²The Lord will open his excellent treasury, the heavens, so that it may distribute rain in due time. And he will bless all the works of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you yourself will borrow nothing from anyone.

²⁶Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts.

¹¹So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?

³³Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.

²⁵If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury. ²⁶If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun. ²⁷For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

⁵Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”

¹¹Substance obtained in haste will be diminished. But what is collected by hand, little by little, shall be multiplied.

⁶Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. ⁷And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.