"Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings.

You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, [Even] this whole nation.

"nor bag for [your] journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food.

It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things.

Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My father, [if] the prophet had told you [to do] something great, would you not have done [it?] How much more then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?"

Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.