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10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.[a]

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  1. 9.10 Or benevolence

10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
    and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,(A)

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The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.(A)

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12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
    reap steadfast love;
    break up your fallow ground,
for it is time to seek the Lord,
    that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.(A)

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12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.(A)

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11 having produced the harvest[a] of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

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  1. 1.11 Gk fruit

17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit[a] that accumulates to your account.(A)

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  1. 4.17 Gk fruit

Concerning Almsgiving

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before others in order to be seen by them, for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.(A)

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In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.(A)

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18 The wicked earn no real gain,
    but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.(A)

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11 Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so.(A) 12 The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good.

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for the fruit of the light[a] is found in all that is good and right and true.

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  1. 5.9 Other ancient authorities read of the Spirit

23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh, here is seed for you; sow the land. 24 And at the harvests you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households and as food for your little ones.”(A)

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19 Shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. We with our land will become slaves to Pharaoh; just give us seed, so that we may live and not die and that the land may not become desolate.”

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10 and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

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