Genesis 14:24

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Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,

When it is in your power to do it.

“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was living by the

oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were

allies with Abram.

So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”