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Financial Curses
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“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. — read the full passage →
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men: — read the full passage →
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.
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.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
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 →
He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. — read the full passage →
Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, — read the full passage →
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: — read the full passage →
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
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.”
neither give place to the devil.
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” — 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 →
“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.”
One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — 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 →
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
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 →
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
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.’”
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →
“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. — read the full passage →
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →
He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,
He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. — read the full passage →
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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