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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 enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.
¶ Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.
¶ If anyone comes unto you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house neither say unto him, Welcome:
For he that says unto him, Welcome, is partaker of his evil deeds.
¶ Go from the presence of the foolish man when thou dost not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.
¶ Do not meddle with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.
Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
¶ He that walks with wise men shall be wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed.
But now I have written unto you not to associate with anyone calling himself a brother if he is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a one do not even eat.
¶ The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
¶ He that covers a transgression seeks love, but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.
¶ Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks out of order, and not after the doctrine which ye received of us.
A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject him,
knowing that he that is such is subverted and sins, being condemned of his own judgment.
¶ He that tills his land shall be filled with bread, but he that follows after vain persons shall be filled with poverty.
And Jehu, the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the ungodly and love those that hate the Lord? Therefore, the wrath of the presence of the Lord shall be upon thee.
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
I have hated the congregation of evil doers and will not sit with the wicked.
And if anyone does not hearken unto our word by this epistle, note that one and do not join with him, that he may be ashamed.
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
¶ The righteous causes his neighbour to consider: but the way of the wicked causes them to err.
¶ Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship does righteousness have with unrighteousness? and what communion does light have with darkness?
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou dost understand my thoughts from afar.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do I not hate all those, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies.
Ye did run well; who hindered you that ye should not trust in the truth?
This persuasion does not come of him that called you.
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
¶ Be temperate and vigilant because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour,
Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passes away and the lust thereof, but he that does the will of God abides for ever.
¶ And I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause dissensions and offences outside of the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.
For they that are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by smooth words and blessings deceive the hearts of the simple.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, charity, tolerance, meekness.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, unto which thou art also called, having made a good profession before many witnesses.
¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole as those that go down into the pit;
We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, do not walk in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
¶ He that walks in integrity walks securely, but he that perverts his ways shall be broken.
¶ And it seems strange to those that speak evil of you, that ye do not run with them to the same unchecked dissolution;
¶ Keep yourselves also from the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
¶ The scorner does not love the one that reproves him, neither will he go unto the wise.
¶ Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
¶ Cease, my son, to hear the teaching that induces one to deviate from the reasons of wisdom.
¶ Brethren, if anyone is overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.
¶ Flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with those that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
of his Son (who was born unto him of the seed of David according to the flesh,
backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, without mercy.
Who having understood the righteousness of God, they did not understand that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only those that do the same, but even those who encourage those that do them.
Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.