Being Stingy

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God.

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. — read the full passage →

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. — read the full passage →

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. — read the full passage →

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

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.”

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. — read the full passage →

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: — read the full passage →

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

“‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. — read the full passage →

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, — read the full passage →