³ If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’ And he will send them immediately.”^[a]

Encouragement to Be Generous

8 We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia, ² for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

²⁵ nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.^(A)

⁹ For you know the generous act^[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.^(A)

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands.^(A)

² since you have given him authority over all people,^[a] to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.^(A)

⁸ The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts. ⁹ The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts, and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.”^(A)

Psalm 24

Entrance into the Temple

Of David. A Psalm.

²⁷ Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem^(A)