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Nothing to this world we bring;
    from it take we nothing.
With food to eat and clothes to wear;
    content we are in everything.

But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

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For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.(A) But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.(B) Those who want to get rich(C) fall into temptation and a trap(D) and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

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