[6]But piety with sufficiency is great gain.[7]For we brought nothing into this world, and there is no doubt that we can take nothing away.[8]But, having nourishment and some kind of covering, we should be content with these.[9]For 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.[10]For 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.

I am the Lord, who examines the heart and tests the temperament, who gives to each one according to his way and according to the fruit of his own decisions.

beside the gates of the city, at the very doors, she speaks, saying: