--- title: Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Honest money means earning it by doing the work you promised, paying the real price, and giving all of money rais --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Honest money: earning, raising and pay… # Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly Lesson 96 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/0/) — Honest money means earning it by doing the work you promised, paying the real price, and giving all of money raised for a cause to that cause. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/1/) — Leah gets £1 for walking the neighbour's dog round the park, but only goes round the block and says, "Yeah, did the full park"; pay is a promise both ways, so she should do the full walk or say what she really did. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/4/) — If a grown-up asks you to fib to save money, you can gently say the truth, like "Dad, I'm 12 though", without being rude. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/5/) — "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord" (Colossians 3:23); pay is a promise both ways. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/7/) — Child prices are an agreement between the cinema and its customers; saying a false age breaks the deal. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/8/) — "You shall not steal" and "You shall not bear false witness" (Exodus 20:15-16): pretending you didn't know you spent real money breaks both; telling the truth lets a parent ask the shop for a refund and keeps their trust. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/9/) — Elisha, a prophet, had healed Naaman, a foreign army commander, and refused his gifts; Gehazi ran after Naaman, lied to get silver and clothes, then told Elisha, "Your servant didn't go anywhere" (2 Kings 5:20-27); Elisha knew, and Gehazi was struck with Naaman's skin disease. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/10/) — Judas kept the disciples' money bag and "used to help himself to what was put into it" (John 12:6); the Bible tells the truth about people, even the disciples. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/11/) — Money raised for a cause must go to that cause unless everyone agreed otherwise; Paul handled collected gifts openly (2 Corinthians 8:20-21). - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/12/) — Swapping price stickers is stealing: "The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him" (Proverbs 20:23). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/13/) — Money found in a second-hand book probably belonged to the person who gave it, or now to the charity; "Do the same if you find... anything else they have lost" (Deuteronomy 22:3). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/14/) — A charity sign must be accurate because people pay more because of it; Ananias and Sapphira gave part but pretended it was all (Acts 5:1-11). - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/15/) — Taxes pay for schools, hospitals and roads; Jesus said, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" (Mark 12:17), and Paul, "If you owe taxes, pay taxes" (Romans 13:7). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/16/) — At Newcastle University in 2006, people paid much more into an honesty box for drinks when a picture of eyes hung above it: we are tempted most when we feel unseen. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/17/) — God sees what is done in secret (Psalm 139:1-4); "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another" (Romans 13:8). - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/96-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly/18/) — Slang check: "nicked" means stole; "lol" means laughing out loud; "gurt" (West Country) means very or big. - ← previous: [Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet/) - next →: [Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/97-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)