I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

 They are told that they must use their wealth to do good; that they must ever be ready to share; and that they must remember that the Christian is a member of a fellowship. And they are told that such wise use of wealth will build for them a good foundation in the world to come. As someone put it: "What I kept, I lost; what I gave I have." 