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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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

¹²And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

⁶You shall lend money to many nations, and you yourselves shall borrow in return from no one. You shall rule over very many nations, and no one shall rule over you.

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.”

³⁰But distribute to all who ask of you. And do not ask again of him who takes away what is yours.

²⁷Do not prevent him who is able from doing good. When you are able, do good yourself too.

²Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the towns, so that they may be honored by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

²The rich and poor have met one another. The Lord is the maker of them both.

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?

²And so, whoever resists authority, resists what has been ordained by God. And those who resist are acquiring damnation for themselves.

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