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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.
Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.
Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.
If there come any to you, and bring not this teaching, receive ye him not into the household, and to rejoice tell him not:
For he telling him to rejoice, partakes of his evil works.
Thou shalt not be companion of the possessor of anger, and with the man of wrath thou shalt not go:
Lest thou shalt learn his ways and take a snare to thy soul.
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
He going with the wise, and he is wise: and the companion of the foolish shall become evil.
And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.
A man of friends for making friendship: and there is love attaching more than a brother.
Weeping, she will weep in the night, and her tears upon her cheeks: no comfort to her from all loving her: all her friends dealt faithlessly with her, they were to her for enemies.
He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.
And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us.
A man, a heretic after one and the second admonition, reject;
Knowing such to be turned back, and he sins, being self-condemned.
A man of violence will seduce his neighbor, and he caused him to go in a way not good.
He working his land shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing the vain shall be filled with poverty.
And Jehu son of Hanani the seer will go forth to his face, and say to king Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou love to help to the unjust, and to those hating Jehovah? and in this, wrath upon you from before Jehovah.
I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.
I hated the convocation of those being evil, and with the unjust I will not sit
And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.
And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother.
Wisdom is good above the instruments of encounter: and one sinning will destroy much good.
The just excelled above his neighbor: and the way of the unjust shall lead them astray.
Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.
But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and in his law he will meditate day and night
And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.
Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?
Surely thou wilt kill the unjust one, O God: and ye men of bloods, depart from me.
For they will say to thee for mischief; thine enemies were lifted up for vanity.
Shall I not hate those hating thee, O Jehovah? and I shall loathe against those rising up against thee.
I hated them with completeness of hatred: they were to me for enemies.
Ye were running well; who hindered you not to obey the truth?
The confidence not from him calling you.
A little leaven leavens the whole mixture.
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passes away, and its eager desires: but he doing the will of God remains for ever.
And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.
For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.
And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.
If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;
We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:
We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil:
Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:
My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:
In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:
And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves.
A bad tooth and a wavering foot, the confidence of the faithless one in the day of straits
Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.
And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Two are good above one, because there is to them a good reward in their labor.
For if they shall fall, the one will raise up his companion: and wo to him, the one that shall fall, and not a second to raise him up.
Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,
Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,
Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:
Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.