Love Offerings

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

“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 →

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.

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

“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.”

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 →

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.’”

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

“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.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Let all that you do be done in love.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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 →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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

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

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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 →

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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 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.

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;

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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 →

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, — read the full passage →

We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

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

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. — read the full passage →

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”