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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! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever purposes to be a friend of the world is put down as a hostile one to God.
Happy is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the wicked ones, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of scorners.
If anyone comes to you and does not bear this doctrine, do not receive him into the house, and do not speak a greeting to him.
For the one speaking a greeting shares in his evil works.
Do not feed with a lord of anger, and do not go in with a man of fury,
lest you learn his ways and take a snare for your soul.
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
One walking with the wise ones shall be wise, but a feeder of fools shall be made evil.
But now I wrote to you not to associate intimately; if anyone being named a brother and is either a fornicator, or a covetous one, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a rapacious one, with such a one not to eat.
A man of friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.
She bitterly weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. She has no one out of all the ones loving her. All her friends dealt deceitfully with her; they became enemies to her.
One who covers a transgression seeks love, but one repeating a matter separates from a friend.
And we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves back from every brother walking in a disorderly way, and not according to the teaching which you received from us.
Faithful are the wounds of one who loves, and being plentiful are the kisses of one who hates.
Reject a heretical man after a first and second admonition,
knowing that such a one has been perverted and sins, being self-condemned.
For one being devious is a disgusting thing to Jehovah, but His counsel is with the upright ones.
He who works his ground shall have plenty of bread, but one pursuing vanities shall be sated with poverty.
And Jehu the son of Hanani, the seer, went out before him and said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked one, and those who hate Jehovah, and by this bring wrath on you from the face of Jehovah?
I have not sat with lying men; and I will not go in with those dissembling;
I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked ones.
But if anyone does not obey our word through the letter, mark this one, and do not associate with him, that he be shamed.
But do not count him a hostile one, but warn him as a brother.
The righteous one searches out his friend, but the way of the wicked ones leads them astray.
Happy is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the wicked ones, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of scorners.
But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah, and he meditates in His Law day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of waters, which will give its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf will not wither, and all which he does will prosper.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Do not be unequally yoked with faithless ones. For what partnership does righ- teousness have with lawlessness? And what fellowship does light have with darkness?
If You will slay the wicked one, O God, even men of blood will turn away from me.
Who will speak against You with evil purposes? Your enemies are lifted up with vanity.
O Jehovah, do not I hate those hating You? And I am loathing those rising against You?
I hate them with a perfect hatred; they have become my enemies.
You were running well; who beat you back that you do not obey the truth?
The persuasion is not from Him calling you.
A little leaven leavens all the lump.
Be self-controlled. Be watchful, because your adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking someone he may devour;
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone 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 pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
And the world is passing away, and its lust. But the one doing the will of God abides unto the age.
And brothers I exhort you to watch the ones making divisions and causes of stumbling contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
For such ones do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth speech and fine speeches they deceive the hearts of the ones without guile.
But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
My son, if sinners lure you, do not be willing.
If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us secretly lurk for the innocent ones without cause,
let us swallow them up alive as Sheol; and whole, as those going down into the Pit,
we shall find all precious wealth; we shall fill our houses with plunder;
cast in your lot among us; one purse shall be to all of us.
My son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their path;
in which they are surprised, you not running together with them into the same pouring out of unsavedness, blaspheming;
But beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside they are plundering wolves.
Trust in one acting deceitfully in a day of distress is like a bad tooth and a slipping foot.
Brothers, if a man is taken in some deviation, you, the spiritual ones, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, that you not also be tempted.
But flee youthful lust and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with the ones calling on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Two are better than one; because there is a good reward for their labor.
For if they fall, this one will lift up his companion. But woe to him, the one that falls, and there is not a second to lift him up.
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, iniquity, covetousness, malice, being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,
slanderers, God-haters, insolent men, arrogant ones, braggarts, devisers of evil things, disobedient to parents,
without understanding, untrustworthy ones, without affection, implacable ones, unmerciful,
who having known the ordinance of God, that the ones practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve the ones practicing them.
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone 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 pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.