Luke 6:38
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38 Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.[a]”
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- 6:38 Or The measure you give will be the measure you get back.
2 Corinthians 9:6-8
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6 Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. 7 You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.”[a] 8 And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others.
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Mark 4:24
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24 Then he added, “Pay close attention to what you hear. The closer you listen, the more understanding you will be given[a]—and you will receive even more.
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- 4:24 Or The measure you give will be the measure you get back.
Proverbs 3:9-10
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9 Honor the Lord with your wealth
and with the best part of everything you produce.
10 Then he will fill your barns with grain,
and your vats will overflow with good wine.
Matthew 7:2
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2 For you will be treated as you treat others.[a] The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.[b]
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Deuteronomy 15:10
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10 Give generously to the poor, not grudgingly, for the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
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Proverbs 22:9
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9 Blessed are those who are generous,
because they feed the poor.
Proverbs 19:17
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17 If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord—
and he will repay you!
Proverbs 10:22
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22 The blessing of the Lord makes a person rich,
and he adds no sorrow with it.
Luke 6:30
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30 Give to anyone who asks; and when things are taken away from you, don’t try to get them back.
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2 Corinthians 8:14-15
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14 Right now you have plenty and can help those who are in need. Later, they will have plenty and can share with you when you need it. In this way, things will be equal. 15 As the Scriptures say,
“Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over,
and those who gathered only a little had enough.”[a]
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Isaiah 65:6-7
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6 “Look, my decree is written out[a] in front of me:
I will not stand silent;
I will repay them in full!
Yes, I will repay them—
7 both for their own sins
and for those of their ancestors,”
says the Lord.
“For they also burned incense on the mountains
and insulted me on the hills.
I will pay them back in full!
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- 65:6 Or their sins are written out; Hebrew reads it stands written.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-2
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The Uncertainties of Life
11 Send your grain across the seas,
and in time, profits will flow back to you.[a]
2 But divide your investments among many places,[b]
for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.
Psalm 79:12
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12 O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times
for the scorn they have hurled at you.
James 2:13
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13 There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others. But if you have been merciful, God will be merciful when he judges you.
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Philippians 4:17-19
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17 I don’t say this because I want a gift from you. Rather, I want you to receive a reward for your kindness.
18 At the moment I have all I need—and more! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God. 19 And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.
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Matthew 10:42
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42 And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded.”
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Job 42:11
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11 Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money[a] and a gold ring.
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- 42:11 Hebrew a kesitah; the value or weight of the kesitah is no longer known.
Judges 1:7
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7 Adoni-bezek said, “I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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Psalm 41:1-2
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Psalm 41
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor!
The Lord rescues them when they are in trouble.
2 The Lord protects them
and keeps them alive.
He gives them prosperity in the land
and rescues them from their enemies.
Psalm 18:25-26
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25 To the faithful you show yourself faithful;
to those with integrity you show integrity.
26 To the pure you show yourself pure,
but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
Job 31:16-20
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16 “Have I refused to help the poor,
or crushed the hopes of widows?
17 Have I been stingy with my food
and refused to share it with orphans?
18 No, from childhood I have cared for orphans like a father,
and all my life I have cared for widows.
19 Whenever I saw the homeless without clothes
and the needy with nothing to wear,
20 did they not praise me
for providing wool clothing to keep them warm?
Esther 9:25
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25 But when Esther came before the king, he issued a decree causing Haman’s evil plot to backfire, and Haman and his sons were impaled on a sharpened pole.
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Esther 7:10
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10 So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.
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Ezra 7:27-28
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Ezra Praises the Lord
27 Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem! 28 And praise him for demonstrating such unfailing love to me by honoring me before the king, his council, and all his mighty nobles! I felt encouraged because the gracious hand of the Lord my God was on me. And I gathered some of the leaders of Israel to return with me to Jerusalem.
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