Pressed Down

“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.”

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.’”

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

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

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 →

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

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

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

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — 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 →

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

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

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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.

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

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

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. — read the full passage →

Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. — read the full passage →

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

“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.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. — read the full passage →

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you.”

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

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 →

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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.”

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

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.

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday; — read the full passage →

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. — read the full passage →

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

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?

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

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. — read the full passage →

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.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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.”

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

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;

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge? — read the full passage →

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

But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

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

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. — read the full passage →

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. — read the full passage →

He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →