the reader be warned: if you wish to pray, fast, or establish a special fund in the church, I advise you not to do it to obtain a temporal or eternal reward. This would injure your faith, which alone offers you all things. Your one concern should be the enhancement41 of your faith, whether it is disciplined by works or suffering. As for your gifts, distribute them freely and without consideration of gain. The goal is to have others benefit from you and your goodness. In this way you shall be truly
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