"Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors;

"Thus the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.

"Thus the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.

Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest.

"And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so as to get as much back. "But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil.

"There were once to men," said Jesus, "in debt to one money-lender. One owed him fifty pounds; the other five.

"So he called to him each of his master's debtors and said to the first, 'How much money do you owe my master?'

"'Then why did you not put my money into the bank, so that at my coming I might I might have gotten it back with interest?'

blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.