What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ free of charge, so as not to exploit my rights in the gospel.

A man has nothing good to eat, and to drink, and to show his soul [as] good in his trouble. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

For who shall eat, or who shall drink, without Him?

I know that there is no good in them, except [for a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

Also, every man who shall eat and drink, and see good in all his labor, [this] is a gift of God.

Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor in which he may labor under the sun; [all] the number of the days of his life which God has given to him; for it is his portion.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God troubles him in the joy of his heart.

Go, eat your bread with mirth, and drink your wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favorably accepted your works.

And see life with the wife whom you love, all the days of the life of your vanity, which are given to you under the sun; for that is your portion in your life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and folly are vanity.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My master is delaying to come,'

the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and in an hour which he does not know,

"For [it is] as [if] a man leaving on a journey, who called his own servants and handed over his possessions to them.

Then the [one] receiving the five talents went and traded with them, and made five other talents.

But the [one] receiving one went away and dug in the ground, and hid his lord's money.

And the [one] who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I gained five more talents besides them.'

"And also the [one] receiving the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.'

"Then the [one] having received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

"But his lord answered and said to him, 'You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter.

Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.

And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

And he reasoned within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because I have nowhere to gather my crops?'

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry."'

So [is] he who accumulates treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

He also said to His disciples: "There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and this [man] was accused to him as wasting his possessions.

And calling him, he said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

And he said to him, 'Well [done], good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.'

Likewise he said to him, 'You also be over five cities.'

For I feared you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.'

Why then did you not give my money to a bank, and when I came, I would have collected it with interest?'

"But they said to him, 'Master, he has ten minas.'

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing,

Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days.

You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain; he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

A generation goes, and a generation comes; but the earth abides forever.

but the rich [man] in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.

For the sun arose with burning heat and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and its beautiful appearance perished. So the rich man also shall fade away in his pursuits.

[you] who do not know [what will] happen tomorrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little [time], but then also disappears.

For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of [the] grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.