Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

2But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather serve them all the more because they are believing and beloved, participants of the same service. Teach and exhort these things. 3If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is in accord with piety, 4then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions: 5the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety. 6But piety with sufficiency is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into this world, and there is no doubt that we can take nothing away. 8But, having nourishment and some kind of covering, we should be content with these. 9For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition. 10For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows. 11But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and truly pursue justice, piety, faith, charity, patience, meekness. 12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called, and make a good profession of faith in the sight of many witnesses.

6Why should I fear in the evil day? The iniquity at my heel will surround me.

7Those who trust in their own strength and who glory in the multitude of their riches,

8no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,

9nor the price for the redemption of his soul. And he will labor continuously,

10and he will still live, until the end.

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17Do not be afraid, when a man will have been made rich, and when the glory of his house will have been multiplied.

18For when he dies, he will take nothing away, and his glory will not descend with him.

19For his soul will be blessed in his lifetime, and he will admit to you when you do good to him.

20He will even enter with the progeny of his fathers, but, even in eternity, he will not see the light.

1And it happened afterwards that he was making a journey through the cities and towns, preaching and evangelizing the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, 2along with certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had departed, 3and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who were ministering to him from their resources.