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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.
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.
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.”
7The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.
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?
10Where there are many riches, there will also be many to consume these things. And how does it benefit the one who possesses, except that he discerns the wealth with his own eyes?
9Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits, 10and then your storehouses will be filled with abundance, and your presses shall overflow with wine.
11Substance obtained in haste will be diminished. But what is collected by hand, little by little, shall be multiplied.
14For it is like a man setting out on a long journey, who called his servants and delivered to them his goods. 15And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, yet to another he gave one, to each according to his own ability. And promptly, he set out. 16Then he who had received five talents went out, and he made use of these, and he gained another five. 17And similarly, he who had received two gained another two. 18But he who had received one, going out, dug into the earth, and he hid the money of his lord. 19Yet truly, after a long time, the lord of those servants returned and he settled accounts with them.
11So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?
17Instruct the wealthy of this age not to have a superior attitude, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who offers us everything in abundance to enjoy, 18and to do good, to become rich in good works, to donate readily, to share, 19to gather for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may obtain true life.
6But I say this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. And whoever sows with blessings shall also reap from blessings: 7each one giving, just as he has determined in his heart, neither out of sadness, nor out of obligation. For God loves a cheerful giver.
20There is desirable treasure, as well as oil, in the habitations of the just. And the imprudent man will waste it.
28Whoever trusts in his riches will fall. But the just shall spring up like a green leaf.
23Be diligent to know the countenance of your cattle, and consider your own flocks, 24for you will not always hold this power. But a crown shall be awarded from generation to generation.
7each one giving, just as he has determined in his heart, neither out of sadness, nor out of obligation. For God loves a cheerful giver.
10Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, says the Lord, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance.
15So he said to them: “Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person’s life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses.”
19And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.