Matthew 21:3
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3 If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’ And he will send them immediately.”[a]
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- 21.3 Or ‘The Lord needs them and will send them back immediately.’
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
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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.
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Acts 17:25
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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)
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2 Corinthians 8:9
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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)
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- 8.9 Gk the grace or gift
John 3:35
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35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands.(A)
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Psalm 50:10-11
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10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.(A)
11 I know all the birds of the air,[a]
and all that moves in the field is mine.
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- 50.11 Gk Syr Tg: Heb mountains
John 17:2
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2 since you have given him authority over all people,[a] to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.(A)
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- 17.2 Gk flesh
Haggai 2:8-9
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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)
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Psalm 24:1
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Psalm 24
Entrance into the Temple
Of David. A Psalm.
1 The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it,(A)
Ezra 7:27
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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)
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Ezra 1:5
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5 Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—got ready to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.(A)
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2 Corinthians 8:16
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Commendation of Titus
16 But thanks be to God, who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.
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Ezra 1:1
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End of the Babylonian Captivity
1 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:(A)
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