1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
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1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
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Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Galatians 6:7
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
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Genesis 13:15
For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
Genesis 17:8
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:13
He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.
Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
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Genesis 47:22
Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.
Numbers 18:20
And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.
Numbers 18:21
And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.
Numbers 18:24
For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.
Numbers 18:25
And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 18:26
Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.
Numbers 18:27
And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
Numbers 18:28
So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.
Numbers 18:31
It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.
Numbers 31:29
Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.
Numbers 31:41
And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Nehemiah 12:44
And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.
Nehemiah 12:47
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.
Nehemiah 13:10
And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
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Exodus 35:21
And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.
Exodus 35:22
They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.
Exodus 35:29
The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.
1 Chronicles 29:3
And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
1 Chronicles 29:5
Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work?
1 Chronicles 29:9
Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.
1 Chronicles 29:17
And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
Philemon 1:14
But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.
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Leviticus 6:14
And this is the law for the meal offering: it is to be offered to the Lord before the altar by the sons of Aaron.
Leviticus 6:15
The priest is to take in his hand some of the meal of the meal offering and of the oil of it, and all the perfume on it, burning it on the altar as a sign, for a sweet smell to the Lord.
Leviticus 6:17
It is not to be cooked with leaven. I have given it to them as their part of the offerings made by fire to me; it is most holy, as are the sin-offerings and the offerings for error.
Leviticus 6:18
Every male among the children of Aaron may have it for food; it is their right for ever through all your generations, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord: anyone touching them will be holy.
Leviticus 6:26
The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.
Leviticus 6:29
Every male among the priests may take it for his food: it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:6
Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:8
And the priest offering any man's burned offering for him, may have the skin of the burned offering which is offered by him.
Leviticus 21:22
He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;
Leviticus 22:7
And when the sun has gone down he will be clean; and after that he may take part in the holy food, because it is his bread.
Ezekiel 42:13
And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.
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Leviticus 8:25
And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat on the inside parts, and the fat on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right leg;
Leviticus 8:26
And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil on it, and one thin cake, and put them on the fat and on the right leg:
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Leviticus 7:32
And the right leg you are to give to the priest for an offering to be lifted up out of what is given for your peace-offerings.
Leviticus 9:21
And Aaron took the breasts and the right leg, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses gave orders.
Leviticus 10:14
And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 10:15
Let them take the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, with the fat of the burned offering, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord; and this will be for you and for your sons with you, for a right for ever, as the Lord has given orders.
Numbers 5:9
And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.
Numbers 6:20
Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.
Deuteronomy 18:4
And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.
Deuteronomy 18:8
His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.
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Numbers 3:7
In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;
Numbers 3:8
And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.
Numbers 18:6
Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
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Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;
2 Samuel 4:10
When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:
2 Kings 5:26
And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?
2 Kings 5:27
Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Acts 4:34
And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,
Acts 5:4
While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
Titus 1:7
For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
Jude 1:11
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
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Numbers 31:28
And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:
Deuteronomy 12:19
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
Deuteronomy 14:27
And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.
Joshua 13:14
Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him.
1 Samuel 8:15
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
2 Chronicles 31:4
In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.
Nehemiah 10:36
As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:
Nehemiah 13:11
Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.
Nehemiah 13:12
Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.
Nehemiah 13:13
And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.
Ezekiel 45:5
A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.
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Joshua 21:1
Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;
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2 Kings 5:15
Then he went back to the man of God, with all his train, and, taking his place before him, said, Now I am certain that there is no God in all the earth, but only in Israel: now then, take an offering from me.
2 Kings 5:16
But he said, By the life of the Lord whose servant I am, I will take nothing from you. And he did his best to make him take it but he would not.
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
2 Kings 5:21
So Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from his carriage and went back to him and said, Is all well?
2 Kings 5:22
And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them?
2 Kings 5:23
And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.
2 Kings 5:24
When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went.
2 Kings 5:25
Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.
Nehemiah 5:10
Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.
Matthew 10:8
Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
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Nehemiah 5:14
Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.
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Matthew 28:19
Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
Matthew 28:20
Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
1 Corinthians 11:23
For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,
1 Corinthians 11:26
For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,
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Luke 3:13
And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.
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Luke 3:14
And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.
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Matthew 9:35
And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain.
Matthew 10:9
Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
Matthew 10:35
For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:
Mark 6:8
And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;
Mark 6:9
They were to go with common shoes on their feet, and not to take two coats.
Luke 9:3
And he said to them, Take nothing for your journey, no stick or bag or bread or money, and do not take two coats.
Luke 10:4
Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
Luke 10:9
And make well those in it who are ill and say to them, The kingdom of God is near to you.
Luke 10:10
But if you go into a town where they will not have you, go out into the streets of it and say,
Luke 10:11
Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.
Luke 10:12
I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.
Luke 22:35
And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.
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Acts 7:44
Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.
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Song of Solomon 8:12
My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.
Romans 15:19
By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;
1 Corinthians 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.
1 Corinthians 7:40
But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
Romans 1:11
For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;
1 Corinthians 2:2
For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.
1 Corinthians 14:26
What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.
2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 10:2
Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:
2 Corinthians 10:11
Let those who say this keep in mind that, what we are in word by letters when we are away, so will we be in act when we are present.
2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:
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Acts 18:1
After these things, he went away from Athens, and came to Corinth.
Acts 18:2
And there he came across a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who not long before had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had given orders that all Jews were to go away from Rome: and he came to them;
Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;
1 Corinthians 4:12
And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;
2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you yourselves are used to taking us as your example, because our life among you was ruled by order,
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1 Corinthians 4:18
Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you.
1 Corinthians 5:2
And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
2 Corinthians 1:16
And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.
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1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;
1 Corinthians 7:30
And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;
1 Corinthians 7:31
And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.
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1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
1 Corinthians 9:25
And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.
1 Corinthians 9:26
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
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Philippians 1:17
But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.
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Philippians 1:18
What then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad.
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1 Corinthians 2:1
And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.
2 Corinthians 10:10
For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.
2 Corinthians 12:19
It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
Philippians 4:10
But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.
Philippians 4:15
And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;
Philippians 4:17
Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.
Colossians 1:24
Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.
Philemon 1:8
And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,
Philemon 1:9
Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:
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1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
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Acts 28:10
Then they gave us great honour, and, when we went away, they put into the ship whatever things we were in need of.
Philippians 2:29
So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:
1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;
1 Timothy 5:3
Give honour to widows who are truly widows.
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Numbers 31:31
So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Hebrews 7:4
Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.
Hebrews 7:5
And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.
Hebrews 7:6
But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.
Hebrews 7:9
And we may say that in Abraham, even Levi, who has a right to take the tenth part, gave it;
Hebrews 7:10
Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.
Hebrews 7:11
Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 7:12
Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.
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