And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, Follow Me. So he arose and followed Him.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

The rich and poor have this in common: Jehovah is the maker of them all.

If you lend money to My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not lay interest on him.

If you indeed take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him by the going down of the sun.

If one of your brethren becomes poor, and his hand has become shaky, then you shall support him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

You shall not give him your money at interest, nor give him your food at a profit.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our fields and vineyards.

After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, Each of you is exacting usury from his brother. So I appointed a great assembly against them.

Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,