These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Corinthians 9
Brit Hadashah 15 verses
- 1 As to the services which are being rendered to Elohim’s people, it is really unnecessary for me to write to you.
- 2 For I your earnest willingness, on account of which I habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready; and the greater number of them have been spurred on by your ardour.
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Still I send the brethren in order that in this matter our boast about you may not turn out to have been an idle one; so that, as I have said, you may be ready;
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for that, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say you yourselves—should be put to the blush in respect to this confidence.
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- 5 I have thought it absolutely necessary therefore to request these brethren to visit you before I myself come, and to make sure beforehand that the of which you have already promised may be ready as a of , and may not seem to have been something which I have extorted from you.
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But do not forget that he who sows with a stingy hand will also reap a stingy crop, and that he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
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Proverbs 22:9 Proverbs 11:24-25 Luke 6:38 Proverbs 11:18 Hebrews 6:10 Galatians 6:7-9 Ecclesiastes 11:6 Psalm 41:1-3 Proverbs 19:17 2 Corinthians 9:10 Galatians 3:17 Ecclesiastes 11:1 1 Corinthians 15:20 Ephesians 4:17 Luke 19:16-26 Colossians 2:4 Galatians 5:16 1 Corinthians 1:12 1 Corinthians 7:29 - 7 Let each contribute what he has decided upon in his own mind, and not do it reluctantly or under compulsion. “It is a cheerful giver that loves.”
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And is able to bestow every on you in abundance, so that richly enjoying all sufficiency at all times, you may have ample means for all good works.
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Ephesians 3:20 Proverbs 10:22 2 Corinthians 8:7 Malachi 3:10 Titus 3:14 Philippians 4:18-19 Proverbs 3:9 Proverbs 28:27 Haggai 2:8 2 Corinthians 8:19 2 Corinthians 8:2 Proverbs 11:24 1 Chronicles 29:12-14 2 Chronicles 25:9 Psalm 84:11 2 Thessalonians 2:17 Titus 3:8 2 Corinthians 9:11 1 Corinthians 15:58 Colossians 1:10 Ephesians 2:10 Titus 2:14 1 Peter 4:10 2 Timothy 3:17 Acts 9:36 -
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As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his almsgiving remains for ever.”
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- 10 And who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it, and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.
- 11 May you be abundantly enriched so as to show all liberality, such as through our instrumentality brings thanksgiving to .
- 12 For the service rendered in this sacred not only helps to relieve the wants of Elohim’s people, but it is also rich in its results and awakens a chorus of thanksgiving to .
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For, by the practical proof of it which you exhibit in this service, you cause to be extolled for your fidelity to your professed adherence to the Good News of the , and for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all who are in need,
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- 14 while they themselves also in supplications on your behalf pour out their longing towards you because of Elohim’s surpassing which is resting upon you.
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Thanks be to for His unspeakably precious !
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