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2 Corinthians 9:6
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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Genesis 26:12
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

Leviticus 26:2
“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 26:3
“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,

Leviticus 26:4
then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

Deuteronomy 28:8
Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Proverbs 10:22
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

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Genesis 32:13
He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:

Genesis 32:14
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 32:15
thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

Genesis 32:16
He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

Genesis 32:17
He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’

Genesis 32:18
Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’ ”

Genesis 32:19
He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

Genesis 32:20
You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’ ” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

Genesis 33:11
Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

Joshua 15:19
She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Judges 1:15
She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

1 Samuel 25:27
Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

1 Samuel 30:26
When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”

2 Kings 5:15
He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

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Exodus 25:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Exodus 35:5
‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,

1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

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Deuteronomy 15:3
Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

Deuteronomy 15:12
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

Deuteronomy 15:13
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.

Deuteronomy 15:14
You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

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Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:20
You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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Judges 1:7
Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Psalms 18:25
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

Psalms 18:26
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Psalms 137:7
Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

Psalms 137:8
Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

Jeremiah 51:24
“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.

Obadiah 1:15
For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Revelation 18:6
Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

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1 Kings 17:13
Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

1 Kings 17:14
For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’ ”

1 Kings 17:15
She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days.

1 Kings 17:16
The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

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2 Chronicles 7:4
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.

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Psalms 7:14
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Psalms 7:15
He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

Psalms 7:16
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

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Psalms 12:1
Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

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2 Kings 8:9
So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’ ”

Ezra 7:27
Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

Psalms 37:3
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Matthew 6:31
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Matthew 6:34
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Matthew 10:8
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

Matthew 10:9
Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.

Matthew 10:10
Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Philippians 4:12
I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

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Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

Psalms 37:26
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Psalms 41:3
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

Psalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Proverbs 14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Luke 6:37
Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

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Psalms 61:1
Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

Psalms 112:6
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

Psalms 112:7
He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

Psalms 112:8
His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

Isaiah 58:12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

Matthew 6:14
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Mark 14:9
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

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Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Isaiah 55:1
“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Acts 11:30
which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Romans 12:3
For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Romans 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

2 Corinthians 8:10
I give advice in this: it is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

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Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.

Isaiah 32:7
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Jeremiah 4:18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

Romans 2:9
oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 2:10
But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Revelation 20:12
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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Isaiah 54:2
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

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Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Mark 4:26
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

Mark 4:27
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

Mark 4:28
For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Mark 4:29
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

John 4:35
Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

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Isaiah 65:8
Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

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Jeremiah 4:3
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

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Haggai 2:15
Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.

Haggai 2:16
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

Haggai 2:17
I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says Yahweh.

Haggai 2:18
‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.

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Matthew 11:20
Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

Matthew 11:21
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 11:22
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

Matthew 11:23
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

Matthew 11:24
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment, than for you.”

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Leviticus 27:8
But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.

Ezra 2:63
The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.

Mark 12:41
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

Mark 12:42
A poor widow came and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.

Luke 21:3
He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

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Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Matthew 6:20
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

Matthew 6:21
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Luke 12:17
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

Luke 12:31
But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Luke 12:32
“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Luke 16:9
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Luke 16:24
He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

Luke 16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.

Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

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Luke 19:15
“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

Luke 19:16
The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’

Luke 19:18
“The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’

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Acts 4:17
But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

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Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Acts 6:2
The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

Acts 6:3
Therefore, select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

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Matthew 10:13
If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

Acts 28:10
They also honored us with many honors; and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.

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1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 10:19
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

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1 Corinthians 15:36
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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1 Corinthians 15:37
That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

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1 Corinthians 15:43
It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

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1 Corinthians 15:44
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

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2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

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1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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Matthew 25:34
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Luke 14:13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

Acts 4:35
and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 8:6
So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

2 Corinthians 8:7
But as you abound in everything—in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us—see that you also abound in this grace.

2 Corinthians 8:8
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

2 Corinthians 9:1
It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

2 Peter 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:18
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

2 Corinthians 8:24
Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

2 Corinthians 9:4
lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.

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Matthew 10:41
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

Acts 4:32
The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Acts 4:34
For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Acts 5:4
While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

Romans 12:8
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 12:13
contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.

1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.

2 Corinthians 8:4
begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

2 Corinthians 8:5
This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

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Proverbs 24:14
so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Philippians 4:15
You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

Philippians 4:16
For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Philippians 4:18
But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

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1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

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James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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2 Peter 2:21
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

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