4 If you deny yourself in order to accumulate wealth, you are only accumulating it for someone else. Others will use your riches to live in luxury.
5 How can you be generous with others if you are stingy with yourself, if you are not willing to enjoy your own wealth?
6 No one is worse off than someone who is stingy with himself; it is a sin that brings its own punishment.
7 When such a person does something good, it is only by accident; his selfishness will sooner or later be evident.
8 A selfish person is evil; he turns his back on people's needs
9 and is never satisfied with what he has. Greed will shrivel up a person's soul.
10 Some people are too stingy to put bread on their own table.