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2 Corinthians 8 12
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
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Exodus 25:2
“ Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.
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1 Chronicles 29 17
I know, my God, that you test the heart and that you are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to you.
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Acts 20:35
In every way I’ve shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by laboring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said,‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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Romans 12:8
if exhorting, in exhortation; giving, with generosity; leading, with diligence; showing mercy, with cheerfulness.
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Deuteronomy 15:7-11
“ If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your city gates in the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him enough for whatever need he has.Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart,‘ The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.Give to him, and don’t have a stingy heart when you give, and because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you do.For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you,‘ Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.’
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Exodus 35:5
Take up an offering among you for the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the LORD’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;
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Proverbs 11:25
A generous person will be enriched, and the one who gives a drink of water will receive water.
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Proverbs 23:6-8
Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, and don’t desire his choice food,for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.“ Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.You will vomit the little you’ve eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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James 5:9
Brothers and sisters, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!
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Deuteronomy 15:14
Give generously to him from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You are to give him whatever the LORD your God has blessed you with.
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Proverbs 22:9
A generous person will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
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1 Peter 4 9
Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
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Isaiah 32:8
But a noble person plans noble things; he stands up for noble causes.
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Isaiah 32:5
A fool will no longer be called a noble, nor a scoundrel said to be important.