Verses
10 references
- The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
- Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
- No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
- Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
- Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
- Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
- And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
- Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”