“Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed—be financially ethical], being content with what you...
“I have seen that every [effort in] labor and every skill in work comes from man’s rivalry with his neighbor. This too is vanity (futility, false pride)...
“But godliness actually is a source of great gain when accompanied by contentment [that contentment which comes from a sense of inner confidence based on the sufficiency...
“Then the people rejoiced because they had given willingly, for with a whole and blameless heart they had offered freely to the LORD. King David also rejoiced...
“Whoever mocks the poor taunts his Maker, And he who rejoices at [another’s] disaster will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 17:5 AMP Before the fall of man,...