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VERSES FOR OFFERINGS
Think about giving – it's truly beautiful in God's eyes. When you're preparing your offering, remember it should be your best, given with a sincere heart. It should be a joyful act, knowing how much God has already blessed us with, even when we don't deserve it. He's been incredibly generous, hasn't He?
If you only give what's leftover, well, life might just mirror that back to you. Think about it – give as if you're giving to yourself. Don't do it out of obligation or because you expect something in return. True giving comes from the heart.
Don't make a big show of it either. It's not about getting praised or patted on the back. Let your giving be a quiet act between you and God. He sees what's in your heart, and He loves a cheerful giver. Remember what it says in 2 Corinthians 9:7: "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
Giving is an act of worship, a way to give back a portion of what God has already given us. And when God gives, He gives abundantly. When you offer from the heart, you're opening the door for even more blessings. The more you give, the more you receive. It's a beautiful cycle.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers,
If any man comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into a house, and do not speak to him to rejoice.
For he who speaks to him to rejoice, partakes of his evil works.
Go into the presence of a foolish man, and thou shall not perceive the lips of knowledge.
Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,
lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.
But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.
He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her loved ones she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.
He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition, which they received from us.
Shun a factious man after a first and second admonition,
knowing that such a man is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.
For the perverse man is an abomination to LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the wicked, and love those who hate LORD? For this thing wrath is upon thee from before LORD.
I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with dissemblers.
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
And if any man does not obey our word by this letter, note that man, and do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers,
but his delight is in the law of LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper.
And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke them.
Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
Surely thou will kill the wicked, O God. Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take [it] in vain.
Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate thee? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?
This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.
Now I beseech you, brothers, watch out for those who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks, contrary to the doctrine that ye learned, and turn away from them.
For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, mildness.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life for which thou are called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.
We shall find all precious substance. We shall fill our houses with spoil.
Thou shall cast thy lot among us. We will all have one bag.
My son, walk not thou in the way with them. Restrain thy foot from their path.
During which they think it strange of you not running together into the same pouring out of debauchery, while they slander.
But beware of FALSE prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are predatory wolves.
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted.
And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and has not another to lift him up.
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;
without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.
Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.