4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

5Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,

6That we may have the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?

7The Lord has sworn against the pride of Jacob: surely I will never forget all their works.

1Praise the Lord, you children: praise you the name of the Lord.

2Blessed be the name of the Lord, from now on now and forever.

4The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.

5Who is as the Lord our God, who dwells on high:

6and looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?

7Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill::

8That he may place him with leaders, with the leaders of his people.

1I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men:

2For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

3For this is good and acceptable before God our Saviour,

4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

5For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

6Who gave himself a rescue for all, a teaching in due times.

7To which I am appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not,) a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

8I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

1And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused to him, that he had wasted his goods.

2And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of you? give an account of your stewardship: for now you canst be steward no longer.

3And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord takes away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

4I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

5Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much do you owe my lord?

6But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take your bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

7Then he said to another: And how much do you owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take your bill, and write eighty.

8And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

9And I say to you: Make to you friends of the mammon of sin; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into eternal dwellings.

10He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater.

11If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true?

12And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who will give you that which is your own?

13No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.