Though the encouragement of exportation and the discouragement of importation are the two great engines by which the mercantile system proposes to enrich every country, yet with regard to some particular commodities it seems to follow an opposite plan: to discourage exportation and to encourage importation. Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by the advantageous balance of trade. It discourages the exportation of the materials of manufacture, and of the instruments of trade, in order to give our own workmen an advantage, and to enable them to undersell those of other nations in all foreign markets; and by restraining, in this manner, the exportation of a few commodities of no great price, it proposes to occasion a much greater and more valuable exportation of others. It encourages the importation of the materials of manufacture in order that our own people may be enabled to work them up more cheaply, and thereby prevent a greater and more valuable importation of the manufactured commodities.
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2 Corinthians 11:13:
For such persons are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
(NIV)
For such men are false apostles [spurious, counterfeits], deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles (special messengers) of Christ (the Messiah).
(AMP)
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(KJV)
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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By the work one knows the workmen.
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Matthew 20:1:
'For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.'
(NIV)
FOR THE kingdom of heaven is like the owner of an estate who went out in the morning along with the dawn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
(AMP)
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
(KJV)
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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.
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