“If they come [into poverty] by a vicious idleness and prodigality [laziness and self-indulgence]; yet we are not thereby excused from all obligation to relieve them, unless they continue in those vices… If we do otherwise, we shall act in a manner contrary to the rule of loving one another as Christ loved us. Now Christ hath loved us, pitied us, and greatly laid out himself to relive us from that want and misery which we brought on ourselves by our own folly and wickedness. We foolishly and perversely threw way those riches with which we were provided, upon which we might have lived and been happy to all eternity.”
"All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along." Galatians 2:10
