Bible verses about "capitalism" | Coverdale

⁴ The slogarde wolde fayne haue, and can not get his desyre: but the soule of the diligent shal haue plenty.

¹² And I sayde vnto them: yff ye thynke it good, brynge hither my pryce: yf no, then leaue. So they wayed downe xxx. syluer pens, ye value that I was prysed at.

⁴⁴ But all they that beleued, were together, and had all thinges commen. ⁴⁵ They solde their goodes and possessions, and parted them out amonge all, acordinge as euery ma had nede.

⁹ With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.

⁴ Heare this, O ye yt oppresse the poore, and destroye the nedy in ye londe, sayenge: ⁵ Whan will the new moneth be gone, that we maye sell vytale, and ye Sabbath, that we maye haue scarcenesse of corne: to make the bu?shel lesse, and the Sycle greater? ⁶ We shall set vp false waightes, yt we maye get the poore vnder vs with their money, and the nedy also for shues: yee let vs sell the chaffe for corne. ⁷ The LORDE hath sworne agaynst the pryde of Iacob: these workes of theirs will I neuer forget.

²⁴ No ma can serue two masters. For ether he shall hate the one and loue the other: or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other: Ye can not serue God and mammon.

¹⁰ And whan we were wt you, this we warned you of, that yf there were eny which wolde not worke, ye same shulde not eate.