Holy Scripture
Genesis 14:23
A church father on this verse
“It is characteristic of the perfect mind not to take for itself any earthly thing, anything prone to bodily seduction. This is why Abraham says, "I will take nothing of what is yours." He avoids intemperance like the plague. He flees from sensual bodily temptations as from filth. He rejects worldly pleasures to seek t…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
23that I will not take from all thy goods from a string to a shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.
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In context
21And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the men, and take the horses to thyself.
22And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I will stretch out my hand to the Lord the most high God, who made the heaven and the earth,
— Genesis 14:23 —
24Except what things the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Eshcol, Aner, Mamre, these shall take a portion.