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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.
I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between Me and the earth.And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that My rainbow shall be seen in the cloud.And I shall remember My covenant, which is between Me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh.
In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.
And I will establish My covenant between you and your seed after you, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be your God, and the God of your seed after you.And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land in which you sojourn, even all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.
And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.
And he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the ears of the people, and they said, All things whatsoever the Lord has said we will do and be obedient.And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.
And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you.And you shall eat that which is old and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new.And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you;and I will walk among you, and be your God, and you shall be My people.
You shall know therefore, that the Lord your God, He is God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love Him, and for those that keep His commandments to a thousand generations,
Not for your righteousness, nor for the holiness of your heart, do you go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord shall destroy them from before you, and that He may establish the covenant, which the Lord swore to our fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And you shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you may understand all things that you shall do.
Behold, I have set before you this day life and death, good and evil.If you will hearken to the commands of the Lord your God which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His judgments; then you shall live, and shall be many in number, and the Lord your God shall bless you in all the land into which you go to inherit it.
He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded for a thousand generations;which He established as a covenant to Abraham, and He remembered His oath to Isaac.And He established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed; so neither shall My mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed; for the Lord who is gracious to you has spoken it.
For I am the Lord who loves righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labor to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
And I will make with David a covenant of peace, and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.
And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do them.
My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave it to him that he might reverently fear Me, and that he might be awe struck at My name.
for this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many, for the forgiveness of sins.
Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
And on account of this He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that, since a death has occurred for redemption of the transgressions at the time of the first covenant, that those having been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
"This is the covenant which I shall covenant with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws on their hearts, and I will inscribe them on their minds,and their sins and their lawless deeds I shall by no means remember any longer."
And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of your land, and out from your family, and out of the house of your father, into the land which I will show you.And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.And I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you, and in you shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before Me, and be blameless.And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.
I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and on My account have not spared your beloved son,surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.
And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for yourself, for on these words I have established a covenant with you and with Israel.And Moses was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water; and He wrote upon the tablets these words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Horeb.The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: you are all here alive this day.
Neither will I by any means profane My covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of My lips.
which He established as a covenant to Abraham, and He remembered His oath to Isaac.And He established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
Assemble His saints to Him, those that have engaged in a covenant with Him upon sacrifices.
O Lord God, I will glorify You, I will sing to Your name; for You have done wonderful things, even an ancient and faithful counsel. Amen.
But He was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and by His stripes we are healed.
And I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish My sanctuary in the midst of them forever.
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.For assuredly I say to you, until heaven and earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle shall by no means pass away from the law until all things are fulfilled.
For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Brothers, I speak in human fashion: A covenant is of a man, yet having been confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises spoken. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children;
Thus says the Lord to the eunuchs: as many as shall keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of My covenant;I will give to them in My house and within My walls an honorable place, better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.
And this day shall be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord through all your generations; you shall keep it a feast for a perpetual ordinance.
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I establish a covenant with you in the presence of all your people. I will do glorious things which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation; and all the people among you shall see the works of the Lord, that they are wonderful, which I will do with you.
Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which He made with you, and you transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord your God commanded you.For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
And it shall come to pass when you shall have heard these statutes, and have kept and done them, that the Lord your God shall keep for you the covenant and the mercy, which He swore to your fathers.And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; and He will bless the offspring of your body, and the fruit of your land, your grain, your wine, your oil, your herds of oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to give to you.
The Lord shall raise you up as a holy people unto Himself, as He swore to your fathers; if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and walk in all His ways.And all the nations of the earth shall see you, that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they shall stand in awe of you.
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that seek His covenant and His testimonies.
Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I have formed you, and given you for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages;
For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.
And I will remember My covenant, made with you in the days of your infancy, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
For finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not persevere in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.For this is the covenant which I shall covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind, and I shall inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers.Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram.Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon.Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse,and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa.Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah.Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah.Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah.Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the captivity in Babylon.And after the captivity in Babylon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel.Zerubbabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor.Azor begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud.Eliud begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob.And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.So all the generations from Abraham till David were fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon were fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ were fourteen generations.
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,the oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'
who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;of whom are the fathers and from whom Christ came, according to the flesh, He who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
For all the promises of God in Him are "Yes," and in Him "Amen," to the glory of God through us.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."But that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for "The just shall live by faith."But the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them."Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.
the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing,which was symbolic for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are being offered, which are not able, in respect to conscience, to make perfect the one performing the service,
And the Lord has chosen you this day, that you should be to Him a peculiar people, as He said, to keep His commands;
He sends His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgments to Israel.He has not done so to any other nation; and He has not shown them His judgments.
And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed.And your seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in you and in your seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.And behold, I am with you, to preserve you continually wherever you shall go; and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not desert you, until I have done all that I have said to you.
And God said to Abraham, Yea, behold, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him.
I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose life, that you and your seed may live;to love the Lord your God, to hearken to His voice, and cleave to Him; for this is your life, and the length of your days, that you should dwell upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.
but chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which He loved.And He built His sanctuary as the place of unicorns; He founded it forever on the earth.
And this shall be My covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and forever!
and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.
But I say to you, that I will by no means drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom."
"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people,and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
"For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him.For "whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
And I will establish My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh die by the water of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood of water to destroy all the earth.
And I, behold! My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of a many nations.And your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things in them; who keeps truth forever;
Therefore He shall inherit many, and He shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because His soul was delivered to death; and He was numbered among the transgressors; and He bore the sins of many, and was delivered up because of their transgressions.
And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh;
Therefore it is of faith that it may be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Brothers, I speak in human fashion: A covenant is of a man, yet having been confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,so that He might redeem those under the law, so that we might receive the adoption.
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.
"This is the covenant which I shall covenant with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws on their hearts, and I will inscribe them on their minds,
And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for yourself, for on these words I have established a covenant with you and with Israel.
Because He loved your fathers, He also chose you, their seed, after them, and He brought you Himself out of Egypt with His great strength,to destroy nations greater and stronger than you before your face, to bring you in, to give you their land to inherit, as you have this day.
If his children should forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments;if they should profane My ordinances, and not keep My commandments;I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges.
Remember Your compassions, O Lord, and Your mercies, for they are from everlasting.Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance; remember me according to Your mercy, for Your goodness' sake, O Lord.
And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer shall come out of Zion, and He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob;For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins."
A Song of Degrees. See now! What is so good, or what so pleasant, as for brethren to dwell together?
To Him who struck Egypt with their firstborn; for His mercy endures forever.And brought Israel out of the midst of them; for His mercy endures forever;with a strong hand, and an outstretched arm; for His mercy endures forever.
"Behold, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the Gentiles.
knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb blameless and spotless,
He sent redemption to His people; He commanded His covenant forever; holy and fearful is His name.
The Lord also is pleased to purge Him from His stroke. If you give an offering for sin, Your soul shall see a long-lived seed;the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form Him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.
But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before Him.
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded for a thousand generations;
But You, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true.
Let not mercy and truth forsake you; but bind them about your neck:so shall you find favor; and provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.
Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I have formed you, and given you for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages;saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness, show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.
And you shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be to Me a people, and I will be to you a God.
For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures from generation to generation.
And while we do good, let us not lose heart, for in due season we shall reap if we do not become weary.
He has caused His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land; I will put My Spirit upon your seed, and My blessings upon your children;
For anger is in His wrath, but life in His favor; weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy comes in the morning.
"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes, both to the Jew first and to the Greek.For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls; the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes.The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes.The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether.To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
And I meditated on Your commandments, which I loved exceedingly.And I lifted up my hands to Your commandments which I loved; and I meditated in Your statutes.
I will worship toward Your holy temple, and give thanks to Your name, on account of Your mercy and Your truth; for You have magnified Your holy name above all things.
Fear not; for I am with you; wander not; for I am your God, who has strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with My righteous right hand.
Come and behold the works of God; He is mighty in His counsels beyond the children of men,
And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." And arising, he followed Him.Now it came to pass, as He reclined to eat in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners, having come, were reclining to eat with Jesus and His disciples.
Neither will I by any means profane My covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of My lips.Once have I sworn by My holiness, that I will not lie to David.
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those of Israel are of Israel,
Be My witnesses, and I too am a witness, says the Lord God, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know, and believe, and understand that I am He; before Me there was no other God, and after Me there shall be none.
he did not waver at the promise of God in unbelief, but was empowered by faith, giving glory to God,
O Lord, You shall recompense them on my behalf: Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever: do not overlook the works of Your hands.
A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, You are very great; You have clothed Yourself with praise and honor;who cover Yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.Who covers His chambers with waters; who makes the clouds His chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.Who makes His angels spirits, and His ministers a flaming fire.Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation; it shall not ever be moved.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law.