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.

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.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

“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.

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, — read the full passage →

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.

When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

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.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. — read the full passage →

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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.

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 →

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.

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

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: — 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 →

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.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house; — read the full passage →

Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.

There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: — 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.

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.

As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

“‘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.

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 →

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come. — read the full passage →

Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.

“‘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 →

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.”

“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, — read the full passage →

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends