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Therefore, if you can't be trusted with wealth that is often used dishonestly, who will trust you with wealth that is real?
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If you can't be trusted with someone else's wealth, who will give you your own?
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"A servant cannot serve two masters. He will hate the first master and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and despise the second. You cannot serve God and wealth."
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The Pharisees, who love money, heard all this and were making sarcastic remarks about him.
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So Jesus said to them, "You try to justify your actions in front of people. But God knows what's in your hearts. What is important to humans is disgusting to God.
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"Moses' Teachings and the Prophets were [in force] until the time of John. Since that time, people have been telling the Good News about the kingdom of God, and everyone is trying to force their way into it.
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It is easier for the earth and the heavens to disappear than to drop a comma from Moses' Teachings.
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"Any man who divorces his wife to marry another woman is committing adultery. The man who marries a woman divorced in this way is committing adultery.
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"There was a rich man who wore expensive clothes. Every day was like a party to him.
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There was also a beggar named Lazarus who was regularly brought to the gate of the rich man's house.
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Lazarus would have eaten any scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Lazarus was covered with sores, and dogs would lick them.