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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.

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

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.”

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;

²⁰A faithful man shall be greatly praised. But whoever rushes to become rich will not be innocent.

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?

¹⁹And so, let us pursue the things that are of peace, and let us keep to the things that are for the edification of one another.

²²A man who hurries to become rich, and who envies others, does not know that destitution will overwhelm him.

²⁴And in response, the king said to him: “It shall not be as you wish. Instead, I will purchase it from you at a price. For I will not offer to the Lord, my God, holocausts that cost nothing.” Therefore, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

³If you have vowed anything to God, you should not delay to repay it. And whatever you have vowed, render it. But an unfaithful and foolish promise displeases him.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

³³Lots are cast into the lap, but they are tempered by the Lord.

⁴Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence. ⁵Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky.

¹⁷You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; neither shall you desire his wife, nor male servant, nor female servant, nor ox, nor donkey, nor anything that is his.”

⁵And the streets of the city will be filled with toddlers and children, playing in its streets.

³Open your works to the Lord, and your intentions will be set in order.

¹⁰nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God.

⁶Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death. ⁷The robberies of the impious will drag them down, because they were not willing to do judgment. ⁸The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright. ⁹It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house. ¹⁰The soul of the impious desires evil; he will not take pity on his neighbor. ¹¹When the pestilent is punished, a little one will become wiser. And if he pursues what is wise, he will receive knowledge.

²⁹having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping; ³⁰slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹foolish, disorderly; without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. ³²And these, though they had known the justice of God, did not understand that those who act in such a manner are deserving of death, and not only those who do these things, but also those who consent to what is done.