Luke 6:38
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38 give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap, for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”(A)
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2 Corinthians 9:6-8
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6 The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.(A) 7 Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.(B) 8 And God is able to provide you with every blessing[a] in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.(C)
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- 9.8 Gk gift or grace
Deuteronomy 15:10
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10 Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.(A)
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Mark 4:24
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24 And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and it will be added to you.(A)
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Proverbs 3:9-10
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9 Honor the Lord with your substance
and with the first fruits of all your produce;(A)
10 then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Matthew 7:2
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2 For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
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Proverbs 22:9
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9 Those who are generous are blessed,
for they share their bread with the poor.(A)
Proverbs 19:17
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17 Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord
and will be repaid in full.(A)
Proverbs 10:22
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22 The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
and toil adds nothing to it.(A)
Luke 6:30
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30 Give to everyone who asks of you, and if anyone takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back again.(A)
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Matthew 10:42
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42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”(A)
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2 Corinthians 8:14-15
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14 your present abundance and their need, so that their abundance may also supply your need, in order that there may be equality. 15 As it is written,
“The one who had much did not have too much,
and the one who had little did not have too little.”(A)
Ecclesiastes 11:1-2
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The Value of Diligence
11 Send out your bread upon the waters,
for after many days you will get it back.(A)
2 Divide your means seven ways, or even eight,
for you do not know what disaster may happen on earth.(B)
James 2:13
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13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.(A)
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Philippians 4:17-19
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17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit[a] that accumulates to your account.(A) 18 I have been paid in full and have more than enough; I am fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.(B) 19 And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.(C)
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Job 42:11
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11 Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money[a] and a gold ring.(A)
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- 42.11 Heb a qesitah
Isaiah 65:6-7
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6 See, it is written before me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their laps(A)
7 their[a] iniquities and their[b] ancestors’ iniquities together,
says the Lord;
because they offered incense on the mountains
and reviled me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
full payment for their actions.(B)
Psalm 79:12
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12 Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors
the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!(A)
Psalm 41:1-2
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Psalm 41
Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
1 Happy are those who consider the poor;[a]
the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.(A)
2 The Lord protects them and keeps them alive;
they are called happy in the land.
You do not give them up to the will of their enemies.(B)
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- 41.1 Or weak
Psalm 18:25-26
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25 With the loyal you show yourself loyal;
with the blameless you show yourself blameless;(A)
26 with the pure you show yourself pure;
and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.(B)
Job 31:16-20
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16 “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired
or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail(A)
17 or have eaten my morsel alone
and the orphan has not eaten from it—(B)
18 for from my youth I reared the orphan[a] like a father,
and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow[b]—
19 if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing
or a poor person without covering,
20 whose loins have not blessed me,
and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;(C)
Judges 1:7
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7 Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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Deuteronomy 19:16-21
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16 If a malicious witness comes forward to accuse someone of wrongdoing,(A) 17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days,(B) 18 and the judges shall make a thorough inquiry. If the witness is a false witness, having testified falsely against another, 19 then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness had meant to do to the other. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.(C) 20 The rest shall hear and be afraid, and a crime such as this shall never again be committed among you. 21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.(D)
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Esther 9:25
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25 but when Esther[a] came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.(A)
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- 9.25 Heb she
Revelation 16:5-6
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5 And I heard the angel of the waters say,
“You are just, O Holy One, who are and were,
for you have judged these things;(A)
6 because they shed the blood of saints and prophets,
you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”
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