Increase

“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.”

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. — read the full passage →

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. — read the full passage →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

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

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. — read the full passage →

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” — read the full passage →

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another; — read the full passage →

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 →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it. — read the full passage →

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

But Peter said, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!” — read the full passage →

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

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; — read the full passage →

They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; — read the full passage →

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

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

They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, — read the full passage →