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`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful--the true who will entrust to you?

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

but it is great gain--the piety with contentment;

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ, — read the full passage →

and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching, — read the full passage →

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, — read the full passage →

but it is great gain--the piety with contentment; — read the full passage →

and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'