¹⁹ "Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

²⁴ "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

³ "You shall have no other gods before me." ⁴ "You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.⁵ You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me, and showing covenant faithfullness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."

²¹ "For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

³⁵ And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him: ³⁶ "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"
³⁷ Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ The second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' ⁴⁰ All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him [Jesus] with his own words. ... ¹⁷ "Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
¹⁸ But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said, "Hypocrites! Why are you testing me? ¹⁹ Show me the coin used for the tax."" So they brought him a denarius. ²⁰ Jesus said to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?" ²¹ They replied, "Caesar's." He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." ²² Now when they heard this they were stunned, and they left him and went away.

¹⁹ The [Samaritan] woman said to him [Jesus], "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people [Jews] say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." ²¹ Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You people worship what you do not know. ... ²³ But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, ... ,²⁴ God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

²³ As he [Jesus] got into the boat, his disciples followed him. ²⁴ And a great storm developed on the sea so that waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep. ²⁵ So they came and woke him up saying, "Lord, save us! We are about to die!" ²⁶ But he said to them, "Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm. ²⁷ And the mem were amazed and said, "What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!"

¹³ Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry ¹⁴ in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. ¹⁵ For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

²⁵ They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

Slavery, like all other gross and powerful forms of wrong which appear directly to human pride and selfishness, when once admitted into the framework of society, has the ability and tendency to beget a character in the whole network of society surrounding it, favorable to its continuance. The very law of its existence is growth and dominion.

Federalism is the system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units. It is based upon democratic rules and institutions in which the power to govern is shared between national and state governments, creating a federation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

¹³ But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ¹⁹ For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.