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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 enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house, nor speak a greeting to him.
For he who speaks a greeting to him is partaker of his evil deeds.
Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury,
lest you learn his ways and get a snare to 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,
He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion with fools shall be destroyed.
But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.
A man who has 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; among all her lovers, she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt deceitfully with her; they became her enemies.
He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.
After the first and second warning, reject a man of heresy,
knowing that he who is such has been perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate Jehovah? And by this bring wrath on you from before Jehovah.
I have not sat with lying men, 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 obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.
Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of water that brings forth its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf shall not wither, and all which he does shall be blessed.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?
Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; and bloody men, depart from me.
Who will speak against You maliciously? Your enemies are lifted up with vanity.
O Jehovah, do I not hate those who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
You were running well. Who hindered you that you do not obey the truth?
This persuasion is not from Him who calls you.
A little leaven leavens all the lump.
Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like 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 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 of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.
And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.
For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.
But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
My son, if sinners lure you, do not be willing.
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;
let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;
we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder;
cast in your lot among us, and let us have one purse.
My son, do not walk in the way with them! Keep back your foot from their path,
In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.
Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Trust in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Brothers, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you the spiritual ones restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.
But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on 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, for he does not have another to help him.
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
undiscerning, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those 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 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.