Financing

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

And Jesus having sat down over-against the treasury, was beholding how the multitude do put brass into the treasury, and many rich were putting in much, — read the full passage →

`For--as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance, — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

on every first <FI>day<Fi> of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

and Jesus answering said to them, `Give back the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;' and they did wonder at him.

it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

And see how great this one <FI>is<Fi> , to whom also a tenth Abraham the patriarch did give out of the best of the spoils,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

but it is great gain--the piety with contentment;

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing--in all good things.

because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law--the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved <FI>you<Fi> to do, and those not to neglect.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you. — read the full passage →

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, — read the full passage →