Do not refrain from doing good to the poor, whenever your hand may have power to help [them].

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, thus also you do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Render therefore to all their dues: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

Owe nothing to no one, except to love one another, for he who loves one another has fulfilled the law.

Thus also the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel.

But I used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should become thus for me; for it is better for me rather to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.

For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing [grain]," and, "The worker is worthy of his wages."