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⁴⁰But let everything be done respectfully and according to proper order.

²And the Lord responded to me and said: Write the vision and explain it on tablets, so that he who reads it may run through it.

⁶Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom. ⁷For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader, ⁸she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat. ⁹How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep? ¹⁰You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep, ¹¹and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

⁴The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.

⁵⁸And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.

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?

¹³Then, the next day, Moses sat down in order to judge the people, and they stood beside Moses from morning, even until evening. ¹⁴And when, of course, his kinsman saw all that he did among the people, he said: “What is this that you do among the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand before you, from morning, even until evening?” ¹⁵And Moses answered him: “The people come to me seeking the verdict of God. ¹⁶And when any kind of dispute occurs among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to reveal the precepts of God and of his laws.” ¹⁷But he said, “This is not good, what you are doing. ¹⁸You will be consumed by foolish efforts, both you and this people who are with you. The task is beyond your strength; you will not be able bear it alone.

²³Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as for the Lord, and not for men.

¹¹in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;

⁴⁴For this reason, you also must be prepared, for you do not know at what hour the Son of man will return. ⁴⁵Consider this: who is a faithful and prudent servant, who has been appointed by his lord over his family, to give them their portion in due time? ⁴⁶Blessed is that servant, if, when his lord has arrived, he shall find him doing so. ⁴⁷Amen I say to you, he shall appoint him over all of his goods. ⁴⁸But if that evil servant has said in his heart, ‘My lord has been delayed in returning,’ ⁴⁹and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

⁴The neglectful hand has wrought destitution. But the hand of the steadfast prepares riches. He who advances by lies, this one feeds on the wind. For he is the same as one who runs after flying birds.