But the hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and is not concerned about the sheep.

For the end, A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and have become abominable in their devices; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one.

A righteous man knows how to judge for the poor, but the ungodly understands not knowledge, and the poor man has not an understanding mind.

They approach you as a people that come together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but they will not do them; for [there is] falsehood in their mouth, and their heart [goes] after their pollutions.

only they desired that we should remember the poor, which indeed I made every effort to do this very thing.

For if a man enters into your assembly with a gold ring, in fine clothes, and there should also come in a poor [man] in dirty clothes,

But you have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into court?

All who came [before Me] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

And Gehazi the servant of Elisha said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naaman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought; as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take something from him.

And [Gehazi] said, All is well: my master has sent me, saying, Behold, now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from Mount Ephraim; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothes.

And he came to a secret place, and took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and dismissed the men.

From where [have you come], Gehazi? And Gehazi said, Your servant has not been anywhere. And Elisha said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man returned from his chariot to meet you? And now you have received silver, and now you have received clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants, and maidservants.

But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare My ordinances, and take up My covenant in your mouth?

If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.

You sat and spoke against your brother, and scandalized your mother's son.

And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'"

nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

For some were thinking, since Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy [the] things of which we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

for they were to give it to the workmen, and they repaired the house of the Lord with it.

Also they took no account of the men into whose hands they gave the money to give to the workmen, for they acted faithfully.

And I gave charge to twelve of the chiefs of the priests, to Sherebiah, to Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them.

I even weighed into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and a hundred silver vessels, and a hundred talents of gold;

And I said to them, You [are] holy to the Lord; and the vessels [are] holy; and the silver and the gold are freewill offerings to the Lord God of our fathers.

So the priests and the Levites took the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring to Jerusalem into the house of our God.

And we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

All things [were reckoned] by number and weight, and the whole weight was written [down].

and not only that, but who was also chosen by the churches as our traveling companion with this gift, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord Himself and [to show] our readiness--

having regard for honorable things, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

Abstain from every form of evil.