when it compels you to collect interest on other people’s goods? Moreover, if the Word of God comes into any danger, you will not openly confess the truth of the faith because of the pleasure of riches—either because you are afraid to lose what you have or because you long to acquire what you do not have. Do you see how worry and the pleasure of riches choke out the Word and do not allow you to bear fruit? 8“Other seeds fell on good soil.” The good soil is those who refrain from evil riches and do
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