Covetousness Among God’s People I saw that many who profess to be keeping the commandments of God are appropriating to their own use the means which the Lord has entrusted to them and which should come into His treasury. They rob God in tithes and in offerings. They dissemble and withhold from Him to their own hurt. They bring leanness and poverty upon themselves and darkness upon the church because of their covetousness, their dissembling, and their robbing God in tithes and in offerings. {3T 269.1}

Begærlighed blandt Guds folk
Jeg så at mange som bekender sit til at holde Guds bud bifalder deres egen brug af de midler som Gud har betroet dem og som bør lægges i hans skatkammer. De frarøver Gud tiende og gaver. De skjuler og tilbageholder tienden fra ham til deres egen skade. De bringer magerhed og fattigdom over sig selv og mørke over menigheden på grund af deres begærlighed, hemmeligholdelse og at de frarøver Gud tiende og gaver.