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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.

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

¹You masters, supply your servants with what is just and equitable, knowing that you, too, have a Master in heaven.

⁵Servants, be obedient to your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ. ⁶Do not serve only when seen, as if to please men, but act as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. ⁷Serve with good will, as to the Lord, and not to men. ⁸For you know that whatever good each one will do, the same will he receive from the Lord, whether he is servant or free. ⁹And you, lords, act similarly toward them, setting aside threats, knowing that the Lord of both you and them is in heaven. For with him there is no favoritism toward anyone.

⁶But I say this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. And whoever sows with blessings shall also reap from blessings:

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

⁹Honor the Lord with your substance, and give to him from the first of all your fruits,

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

¹⁸But remember the Lord your God, that he himself has provided you with strength, so that he may fulfill his covenant, about which he swore to your fathers, just as the present day reveals.

¹For the First Sabbath. A Psalm of David. The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord: the whole world and all that dwells in it.

¹³Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

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

²⁰There is desirable treasure, as well as oil, in the habitations of the just. And the imprudent man will waste it.

⁴¹And Jesus, sitting opposite the offertory box, considered the way in which the crowd cast coins into the offertory, and that many of the wealthy cast in a great deal. ⁴²But when one poor widow had arrived, she put in two small coins, which is a quarter. ⁴³And calling together his disciples, he said to them: “Amen I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all those who contributed to the offertory. ⁴⁴For they all gave from their abundance, yet truly, she gave from her scarcity, even all that she had, her entire living.”

²Whoever is good shall draw grace from the Lord. But whoever trusts in his own thoughts acts impiously.

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.