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¹⁷The bread of lies is sweet to a man. But afterwards, his mouth will be filled with pebbles.

¹⁰Whoever is faithful in what is least, is also faithful in what is greater. And whoever is unjust in what is small, is also unjust in what is greater. ¹¹So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true? ¹²And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours? ¹³No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

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

¹Woe to you who devise useless things and who work evil in your beds. In the morning light, they undertake it, because their hand is against God. ²And they have desired fields and have taken them by violence, and they have stolen houses. And they have made false accusations against a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. ³For this reason, thus says the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which you will not steal away your necks. And you will not walk in arrogance, because this is a most wicked time. ⁴In that day, a parable will be taken up about you, and a song will be sung with sweetness, saying: “We have been devastated by depopulation.” The fate of my people has been altered. How can he withdraw from me, when he might be turned back, he who might tear apart our country? ⁵Because of this, there will be for you no casting of the cord of fate in the assembly of the Lord. ⁶Do not speak by saying, “It will not drop on these ones; shame will not embrace them.”

²Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death.

¹¹You shall not steal. You shall not lie. Neither shall anyone deceive his neighbor.

¹A deceitful scale is an abomination with the Lord, and a fair weighing is his will.

⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.

⁸But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

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

⁴Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

⁷Do not choose to wander astray. God is not to be ridiculed.

²¹If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,

⁹For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition. ¹⁰For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.