But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 1 Timothy 6:6-8.
“To hoard wealth, is to sin. To be employed in distributing it, never so wisely, as when we endeavour to abate the force of evils which would never have been known if sin had not entered into the world, and such-like service, relating to what is merely temporal, is to be in danger of withdrawing our attention injuriously from what is more immediately spiritual. Hence, it is said, that the clergy should have “food and clothing needful to them, and therewith should hold themselves paid, for more would tarry them.”
John Wycliffe (1324-1384) in Treatise XXVII: On the Seven Deadly Sins, as recounted in Tracts and Treatises of John De Wycliffe: Selections and Translations from His Manuscripts and Latin Works, ed. by Robert Vaughn (London: Blackburn and Pardon, 1845) 68.