Clarified King James Bible

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Matthew 10:8 Display Chapter and Footnotes ⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons; freely you have received, freely give.¹ [Jesus did not charge his disciples for teaching them; Jesus taught them the things of God without asking them to pay. Jesus is telling his disciples that they should also not charge for teaching, preaching, or working miracles in the future. Paul, Peter, and Jude also taught the same. Even the Old Testament forbids taking money for preaching, teaching, or healing. Charging for teaching, preaching, or working miracles includes: a salary, taking up collections, soliciting a love gift, and even calling for tithes after Jesus, (springing from the tribe of Judah), cancelled the Levite priesthood and became the unchangeable priest.]

Matthew 10:8

⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons; freely you have received, freely give.¹ [Jesus did not charge his disciples for teaching them; Jesus taught them the things of God without asking them to pay. Jesus is telling his disciples that they should also not charge for teaching, preaching, or working miracles in the future. Paul, Peter, and Jude also taught the same. Even the Old Testament forbids taking money for preaching, teaching, or healing. Charging for teaching, preaching, or working miracles includes: a salary, taking up collections, soliciting a love gift, and even calling for tithes after Jesus, (springing from the tribe of Judah), cancelled the Levite priesthood and became the unchangeable priest.]

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¹ freely you have received, freely give. Jesus did not charge his disciples for teaching them; Jesus taught them the things of God without asking them to pay. Jesus is telling his disciples that they should also not charge for teaching, preaching, or working miracles in the future. Paul, Peter, and Jude also taught the same. Even the Old Testament forbids taking money for preaching, teaching, or healing. Charging for teaching, preaching, or working miracles includes a salary, taking up collections, soliciting a love gift, and even calling for tithes after Jesus, (springing from the tribe of Judah), cancelled the Levite priesthood and became the unchangeable priest. Peter and Jude speak of those false prophets who were covetous for wages, following in the footsteps of Balaam, who prophesied for money; and they said all such men who preach for money have blackest darkness reserved for them.

Jesus also taught:

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
The hireling [working for a salary] does not own the sheep like the [good] shepherd; so when he sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and flees. Then the wolf seizes the sheep and scatters them.
The hireling flees because he is a hireling [working for pay], and does not love the sheep. John 10:11-13

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