Quoth Can I Help Your A$$?
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However, that can be taken COMPLETELY out of context. It's in a passage discussing an eye for an eye - basically, if someone wants something from you, give him(her) that and something else.
Luke 10:7 also says "the worker deserves his wages".
2 Chronicles 34:10 - " Then they entrusted it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the LORD's temple. These men paid the workers who repaired and restored the temple."
Essentially, you do work, you get paid for it. So by turning that around, if you GET a service or a product from someone, you pay them for it (after all, the pay has to come from somewhere, right?)
As a Christian, I take offense to people who attempt to use their faith as a label to get what they want. Just know that there are a lot of very loving Christians out there - I know quite a few of them - who are accepting and wonderful.
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