150、那些为了获得功德而行善的人不是出于对良善的爱，而是出于对回报的爱而行善。凡渴望获得功德的人都渴望得到回报；那些如此行的人在回报，而不是良善中寻求并获得他们的快乐。因此，他们不是属灵的，而是属世的。
150、行善为了积功德的人，不是因爱良善而行善，而是因喜爱酬报而行善。做事为了积功德的人渴望报答。 这样的人把快乐寄托在获得酬报上，而不是乐于行善。这样的人不是属灵的，而是属世的。
150. Taking Credit
If we do what is good for the credit we may get, we are doing good not out of a love for doing good but out of a love for getting a reward, since if we are looking for credit we want something in return. When we do this we are focusing on pleasure and thinking it is to be found in receiving a reward rather than in doing some good. This means that we are not spiritual people but earthly ones.
150. Chapter 11. Taking Credit for Our Actions
When we do good things so that we can take credit for them, we are not doing them because we love to do good things, but because we love to be rewarded. When we take credit for the things we do, we want to be repaid — the reward is what we consider enjoyable, not the good things in themselves. This means we are not spiritually-minded, but materialistic.
150. XI. ON MERIT
Those who do good deeds to acquire merit are acting not out of love for good, but out of love for reward. Anyone who wants a reward wants to be repaid. Those who act thus look for pleasure and gain it in their reward, and not in good. They are therefore not spiritual, but natural.
150. MERIT.
THOSE who do goods with the view of obtaining merit, do not do them from the love of good, but from the love of reward; for he who is desirous of acquiring merit desires also to be rewarded; and those who do so, see their delight, and place it, in reward, and not in good; wherefore, they are not spiritual, but natural.
150. XI. MERIT.
They who do good that they may merit, do not do good from the love of good, but from the love of reward, for he who wills to merit, wills to be rewarded; they who do so, regard and place their delight in the reward, and not in good; wherefore they are not spiritual, but natural.
150. (XI.) DE MERITO.
Qui bona faciunt ut mereantur, non faciunt bona ex amore boni, sed ex amore mercedis; nam qui vult mereri is vult remunerari: illi qui ita faciunt, jucundum spectant et ponunt in mercede, et non in bono; quare non spirituales sunt, sed naturales.