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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.
14Behold, this is the third time I have prepared to come to you, and yet I will not be a burden to you. For I am seeking not the things that are yours, but you yourselves. And neither should the children store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
22The good leave behind heirs: children and grandchildren. And the substance of the sinner is preserved for the just.
34Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow; for the future day will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its evil.”
12Wisdom with riches is more useful and more advantageous, for those who see the sun.
27Prepare your outdoor work, and diligently cultivate your field, so that afterward, you may build your house.
22Intentions dissipate where there is no counsel. Yet truly, they are confirmed where there are many counselors.
1Cast your bread over running waters. For, after a long time, you shall find it again. 2Give a portion to seven, and indeed even to eight. For you do not know what evil may be upon the earth in the future.
13But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,” 14consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
24Four things are least upon the earth, and they are wiser than the wise: 25the ants, an infirm people who provide food for themselves at the harvest,
8For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. 9And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.
15The substance of the rich is the city of his strength. The fear of the poor is their destitution.
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?
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.
42So the Lord said: “Who do you think is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his Lord has appointed over his family, in order to give them their measure of wheat in due time? 43Blessed is that servant if, when his Lord will return, he will find him acting in this manner. 44Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over all that he possesses. 45But if that servant will have said in his heart, ‘My Lord has made a delay in his return,’ and if he has begun to strike the men and women servants, and to eat and drink, and to be inebriated, 46then the Lord of that servant will return on a day which he hoped not, and at an hour which he knew not. And he will separate him, and he will place his portion with that of the unfaithful.
7If one of your brothers, who dwells within the gates of your city, in the land which the Lord your God will give to you, falls into poverty, you shall not harden your heart, nor tighten your hand. 8Instead, you shall open your hand to the poor, and you shall lend to him whatever you perceive him to need. 9Take care, lest perhaps an impious thought might creep within you, and you might say in your heart: ‘The seventh year of remission approaches.’ And so you might turn your eyes away from your poor brother, unwilling to lend to him what he has asked. If so, then he may cry out against you to the Lord, and it will be a sin for you. 10Instead, you shall give to him. Neither shall you do anything craftily while assisting him in his needs, so that the Lord your God may bless you, at all times and in all things to which you will put your hand. 11The poor will not be absent from the land of your habitation. For this reason, I instruct you to open your hand to your indigent and poor brother, who lives among you in the land.