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Matthew 18:28

New American Bible - revised edition

When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’

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We will not marry our daughters to the local inhabitants, and we will not accept their daughters for our sons.

After some deliberation, I called the nobles and magistrates to account, saying to them, “You are exacting interest from your own kindred!” I then rebuked them severely,

One who is poor and extorts from the lowly is a devastating rain that leaves no food.

“Why do we fast, but you do not see it? afflict ourselves, but you take no note?” See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers.

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan.

Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’

After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

It could have been sold for more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given to the poor.” They were infuriated with her.

He said to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?”

The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction, ‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my way back.’

“Two people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred days’ wages and the other owed fifty.

Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit].”

and this is the manner of the remission. Creditors shall remit all claims on loans made to a neighbor, not pressing the neighbor, one who is kin, because the Lord’s remission has been proclaimed.




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