- But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
- No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
- “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!” - As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
- When goods increase,
They increase who eat them;
So what profit have the owners
Except to see them with their eyes? - Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
- He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”
- The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
But the poor does not hear rebuke. - You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
- When they had pasture, they were filled;
They were filled and their heart was exalted;
Therefore they forgot Me.
But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.