Pressed Down Shaken Together

“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 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 →

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.’”

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

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

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

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

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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

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

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.

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

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

“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 →

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 →

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

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

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

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

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.

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.

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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.

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

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

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

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 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.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;

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

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 →

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. — read the full passage →

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

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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.’

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

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

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.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

“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 →

“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.”

“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 →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.”

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress— I will never be greatly shaken.

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

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.”

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.

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

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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

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;

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

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.

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

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

Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, — read the full passage →

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,

As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’