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⁶Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods. ⁷For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. “Eat and drink,” he will say to you; and his mind is not with you. ⁸The foods that you had eaten, you will vomit up. And you will lose the beauty in your words.

³⁵I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

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

⁵But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

²⁴Some distribute their own goods, and they become wealthier. Others seize what is not their own, and they are always in need.

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again.”

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.

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.”

¹⁶For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹⁷Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.

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.

²⁵The soul that blesses shall be made fat. And whoever inebriates will likewise be inebriated himself.

¹My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you, ²so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence. ³For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence, ⁴if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure, ⁵then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.