2 Corinthians 9:7
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
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2 Corinthians 9:7
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
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Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
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Exodus 25:3
And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;
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Exodus 36:2
Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:
1 Chronicles 28:2
Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.
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Leviticus 5:6
And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away his sin.
Leviticus 5:12
And let him come to the priest with it, and the priest will take some of it in his hand, to be burned on the altar as a sign, among the offerings of the Lord made by fire: it is a sin-offering.
Leviticus 14:10
And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
Leviticus 14:21
And if he is poor and not able to get so much, then he may take one male lamb as an offering for wrongdoing, to be waved to take away his sin, and one tenth part of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
Leviticus 14:30
And he will make an offering of one of the doves or the young pigeons, such as he is able to get;
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Leviticus 7:16
But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after:
Leviticus 22:19
So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats.
Leviticus 22:21
And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.
Psalms 40:8
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
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Leviticus 26:2
Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 26:3
If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,
Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
Leviticus 26:5
And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.
Deuteronomy 28:8
The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Job 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
Isaiah 56:6
And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:
Jeremiah 49:11
Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.
Matthew 10:41
He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.
Luke 3:10
And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do?
Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
Galatians 6:9
And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
1 John 3:18
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
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Deuteronomy 15:12
If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.
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Deuteronomy 16:14
You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.
Deuteronomy 16:15
Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
Deuteronomy 16:20
Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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Joshua 1:16
Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
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1 Kings 8:61
Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.
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1 Kings 17:13
And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.
1 Kings 17:14
For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth.
1 Kings 17:15
So she went and did as Elijah said; and she and he and her family had food for a long time.
1 Kings 17:16
The store of meal did not come to an end, and the bottle was never without oil, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah.
2 Kings 4:42
Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.
2 Kings 4:43
But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.
2 Kings 4:44
So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.
Matthew 14:16
But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.
John 13:29
Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor.
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2 Kings 11:21
And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.
2 Chronicles 24:10
And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given.
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1 Chronicles 27:25
And Azmaveth, the son of Adiel, was controller of the king's property; Jonathan, the son of Uzziah, had control of all store-houses in country places and in the towns and little towns and strong places;
1 Chronicles 27:26
Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;
1 Chronicles 27:27
Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the vine-gardens; Zabdi the Shiphmite was responsible for the produce of the vine-gardens and for all the stores of wine;
1 Chronicles 27:28
Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil;
1 Chronicles 27:29
And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the herds in the grass-lands of Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for those in the valleys;
1 Chronicles 27:30
Obil the Ishmaelite had control of the camels and Jehdeiah the Meronothite of the she-asses;
1 Chronicles 27:31
The flocks were in the care of Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were the controllers of King David's property.
1 Chronicles 27:32
Now Jonathan, David's father's brother, expert in discussion, and a man of good sense, was a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni, had the care of the king's sons;
1 Chronicles 27:33
And Ahithophel was the king's expert in discussion and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.
1 Chronicles 27:34
After Ahithophel was Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar; and the captain of the king's army was Joab.
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2 Chronicles 7:4
Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.
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Leviticus 27:8
But if he is poorer than the value which you have put on him, then let him be taken to the priest, and the priest will put a value on him, such as it is possible for him to give.
2 Chronicles 35:8
And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.
Ezra 2:63
And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by Urim and Thummim.
Ezra 2:69
Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.
Luke 21:3
And he said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has given more than all of them:
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Ezra 3:5
And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.
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Psalms 13:6
I will make a song to the Lord, because he has given me my reward.
Psalms 116:7
Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.
Psalms 119:17
GIMEL Give me, your servant, the reward of life, so that I may keep your word;
Psalms 119:65
TETH You have done good to your servant, O Lord, in keeping with your word.
Psalms 119:124
Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.
Psalms 119:132
Let your eyes be turned to me, and have mercy on me, as it is right for you to do to those who are lovers of your name.
John 1:16
From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace.
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Psalms 37:21
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
Psalms 41:2
The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.
Psalms 41:3
The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.
Psalms 112:5
All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
Psalms 112:6
He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.
Psalms 112:7
He will have no fear of evil news; his heart is fixed, for his hope is in the Lord.
Psalms 112:8
His heart is resting safely, he will have no fear, till he sees trouble come on his haters.
Isaiah 58:12
And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
Mark 14:9
And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.
Luke 6:36
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
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Proverbs 21:17
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
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Proverbs 23:6
Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
Proverbs 23:7
For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
Isaiah 32:5
The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour.
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1 Samuel 13:12
I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.
1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.
Psalms 66:3
Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.
Isaiah 43:22
But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
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Isaiah 54:2
Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.
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Isaiah 65:8
This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.
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Ruth 1:17
Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
Ruth 1:18
And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.
1 Kings 5:5
And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.
Psalms 119:106
I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.
Psalms 119:115
Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
Daniel 1:8
And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.
Acts 11:23
Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:
1 Corinthians 7:37
But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.
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Haggai 2:15
And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:
Haggai 2:16
How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.
Haggai 2:17
And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.
Haggai 2:18
And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.
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2 Kings 8:9
So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?
Psalms 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Matthew 6:31
Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?
Matthew 6:32
Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:
Matthew 6:34
Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.
Matthew 10:9
Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
Matthew 10:10
Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.
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.
1 Corinthians 9:7
Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
Philippians 4:11
But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.
Philippians 4:12
It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.
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,
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Matthew 17:26
And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.
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Leviticus 19:18
Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
Psalms 59:15
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
Mark 6:19
And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;
Galatians 5:14
For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.
James 4:11
Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
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1 Chronicles 29:10
So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.
2 Chronicles 17:16
After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;
Proverbs 14:31
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Luke 14:13
But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:
Acts 2:45
And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.
Acts 2:46
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
Acts 2:47
Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.
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,
2 Corinthians 8:4
Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:
2 Corinthians 8:5
And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
2 Corinthians 8:6
So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.
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Proverbs 3:4
So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.
Proverbs 11:18
The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
Luke 18:22
And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.
Acts 4:32
And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.
Acts 4:35
And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.
Acts 11:30
Which they did, sending it to the rulers of the church by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
Romans 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of those of Macedonia and Achaia to send a certain amount of money for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
2 Corinthians 9:1
But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints:
2 John 1:8
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
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Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.
Acts 6:2
And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.
Acts 6:3
Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without protests and arguments;
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Romans 12:11
Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;
Colossians 3:22
Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;
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1 Corinthians 7:6
But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:12
But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.
1 Corinthians 7:25
Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.
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Isaiah 23:18
And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.
Luke 19:17
And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.
Romans 6:13
And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
2 Corinthians 8:7
And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.
2 Corinthians 9:2
For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.
2 Corinthians 9:4
For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.
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2 Corinthians 12:3
And I have knowledge of such a man (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only),
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Proverbs 24:14
So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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 4:16
Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.
Philippians 4:18
I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
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