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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 have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.And it shall be in my giving a cloud upon the earth, and the bow was seen in the cloud.And I remembered my covenant which is between me and between you, and between every breathing thing living of all flesh; and the waters shall not any more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
In that day Jehovah cut out a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed gave I this land from the river of Egypt, to the great river, the river Euphrates:
And I set up my covenant between me and between thee, and between thy seed after thee to their generations for a covenant of eternity; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.And I gave to thee and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings with all the land of Canaan for an eternal possession; and I was God to them.
And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth.And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.
And he will take the book of the covenant and read in the ears of the people: and they will say, All which Jehovah spake we will do, and we will heed.And Moses will take the blood, and sprinkle upon the people, and will say, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah made with you concerning all these words.
And I turned to you and I made you fruitful, and I multiplied you, and I set up my covenant with you.And ye ate of the old, being dry, and ye shall bring forth the old from before the new.And I gave my dwelling in the midst of you: and my soul shall not abhor you.And I walked in the midst of you, and I was to you for God, and ye shall be to me for a people.
And know thou that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, watching the covenant and the kindness to those loving him, and to those watching his commands to the thousandth generation:
Not for thy justice and for the straightness of thy heart thou goest in to possess this land, but for the injustice of these nations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee, and order to lift up the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob.
And watch ye the words of this covenant, and do them, so that ye shall be circumspect in all things which ye shall do.
See, I gave before thy face this day the life and the good, and the death and the evil;That I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to go in his ways, to watch his commands and his laws and his judgments, and live thou and multiply: and Jehovah thy God blessed thee in the land which thou wentest there to possess it
He remembered his covenant forever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations.Which he cut out with Abraham, and his oath to Isaak.And he will set it for a law to Jacob, to Israel an eternal covenant:
For the mountains shall remove and the hills shall waver; and my mercy shall not remove from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not waver, said Jehovah compassionating thee.
For I Jehovah love judgment, hating robbery for burnt-offering; and I gave their works in truth, and I will cut out to them an eternal covenant
Behold the days coming, says Jehovah, and I cut out the house of Israel and the house of Judah a new covenantNot according to the covenant which I cut out with their fathers in the day I laid hold upon their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt; which they brake my covenant, and I was Lord over them, says Jehovah.For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.And they shall teach no more a man his neighbor and a man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah: for they all shall know me to their small and even to their great, says Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and to their sin I will have no more remembrance
And I cut out to them a covenant of peace, and I caused the evil beast to cease from the land: and they dwelt with confidence in the desert, and they slept in the forests.
And I gave to you a new heart, and a new spirit will I give in the midst of you: and I turned away your heart of stone from your flesh, and I gave to you an heart of flesh.And my spirit I will, give in the midst of you, and I made that ye shall go in my laws, and my judgments shall ye watch and do.
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I will give them to him fearing, and he shall fear me, and from the face of my name he was terrified.
For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.
Likewise also the cup after supping, saying, This the cup, the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you:
And now he has attained a more distinguished office, in how much also he is mediator of a better covenant, which was legislated upon better promises.For if that first was faultless, then place was not to be sought for the second.
And for this he is mediator of a new covenant, that death having been, for redemption of the transgressions for the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
This the covenant which I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws upon their heart, and upon their minds will I write them;And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee.And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great; and thou shalt be blessed.And I will praise them praising thee, and I will curse him cursing thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be praised.
And Abram shall be the son of ninety years and nine years: Jehovah shall be seen to Abram and will say to him, I am God Almighty; walk thou before me, and be complete.And I will give my covenant between me and between thee, and I will multiply thee with might exceedingly.
And he will say, By myself did I swear, says Jehovah, for because that thou didst this word, and didst not spare thy son, thine only.That praising, I will praise thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand upon the lip of the sea; and thy seed shall inherit the gate of his enemies.And in thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be praised; because that thou didst listen to my voice.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Write to thyself these words; for upon the mouth of these words, I made a covenant with thee and with Israel.And he will be there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate not bread and drank not water. And he will write upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.
Jehovah our God cut out with us a covenant in Horeb.Jehovah cut not out this covenant with our fathers, but with us, we, these here this day, all we living.
Which he cut out with Abraham, and his oath to Isaak.And he will set it for a law to Jacob, to Israel an eternal covenant:
O Jehovah, thou my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou didst a wonder; counsels from far off, stability, faithfulness.
And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us.
And I cut out to them a covenant of peace; it shall be an eternal covenant with them: and I gave them, and I multiplied them, and I gave my holy place in the midst of them forever.
Think not that I have come to abolish the law, or the prophets: for I have come not abolish, but to complete.For verily I say to you, Till heaven pass away, and earth, one iota, or one mark, should not pass away from the law, till all should be
For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith.
Brethren, I speak according to man; Although a man's covenant, having been confirmed, none annuls, or orders an addition.And to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as to many; but as to one: And to thy seed, who is Christ.
And the mercy of Jehovah is from forever even to forever upon those fearing him, and his justice to sons' sons.
For thus said Jehovah to the eunuchs who shall watch my Sabbaths, and choose in what I delighted, and taking hold upon my covenant;And I gave to them in my house and in my walls a hand and a name good above sons and above daughters: an eternal name will I give to him which shall not be cut off.
And this day shall be to you for a remembrance; and ye kept it a festival to Jehovah for your generations: ye shall keep a festival a law forever.
And he will say, Behold, I make a covenant before all thy people: and I will do wonders which were not created in all the earth, and in all nations; and all the people where thou art among them saw the work of Jehovah: for it is a fearful thing which I do with thee.
Watch for yourselves lest ye shall forget the covenant of Jehovah your God which he cut out with you, and ye make to you any carved thing, the appearance of any thing which Jehovah thy God commanded thee.For Jehovah thy God he is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
And it was because ye shall hear these judgments, and watch them and do them, and Jehovah thy God watched to thee the covenant and. the mercy which he sware to thy fathers:And he loved thee and blessed thee, and multiplied thee: and he blest the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy grain and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the young of thy cows and thy flocks of sheep, upon the land which he sware to thy fathers to give to thee.
Jehovah will raise thee up to him for a holy people, as he sware to thee, when thou shalt watch the commands of Jehovah thy God and go in his ways.And all the peoples of the earth saw that the name of Jehovah was called upon thee; and they were afraid of thee.
All the paths of Jehovah are mercy and truth to those watching his covenant and his testimonies.
Thus said Jehovah, In a time of acceptance I answered thee, and in the day of salvation I helped thee: and I will guard thee, and I will give thee for a covenant of the people to cause the earth to stand, to cause to inherit the inheritance of desolations,
For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.
And I remembered my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I set up to thee an eternal covenant
I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in Elias, what says the writing? how he addresses God against Israel, saying,
For rebuking them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, and I will complete for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a new covenant:Not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they remained not in my covenant, and I heeded them not, says the Lord.For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob: and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Rath; and Obed begat Jesse;And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her of UriasAnd Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz; begat Ezekias;And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;And Josias begat Jeehonias and his brethren upon the transferring of BabylonAnd after the transferring of Babylon Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim beget Elind;And Elind begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, being called Christ, the anointed.Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations; and from David to the transferring of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the transferring of Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.
To do mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant:The oath which he sware to Abraham our father,
Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God set with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all families of earth be praised.
Who are Israelites; whose the adoption as a son, and the glory, and covenants, and legislation, and divine worship, and solemn promises;Whose the fathers, and from whom Christ according to the flesh, who being God over all, praised forever. Amen.
Forasmuch as the solemn promises of God in him yea, and in him Amen, for glory to God by us.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it has been written, Cursed every one who remains not in all written in the book of the law to do them.And that none is justified in the law before God, is manifest: for, The just shall live of faith.And the law is not of faith: but, The man having done them shall live in them.Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:That the praise of Abraham might be to the nations in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
And truly therefore the first had precepts of divine service for him, and a worldly holy place.
This the Holy Spirit designating, the way of the holies had not yet been made manifest, the first tent yet having a standing:Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving;
And Jehovah said thee this day to be to him for a people of property, as he spake to thee, and to watch all his commands,
Announcing his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel.He did not thus to every nation: and judgments they knew them not Praise ye Jah.
And behold, Jehovah was set upon it, and he will say, I Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaak: the land which thou liest upon it, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.And thy seed was as the dust of the earth, And thou didst spread abroad to the sea and east, and north, and south: and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed, and in thy seed.And behold, I am with thee, and I preserved thee in all which thou shalt go, and I turned thee back to this land; for I will not forsake thee, till that I have done what I said to thee.
And God will say. Truly, Sarah thy wife, shall bring forth to thee a son, and shall call his name Isaak: and I set up my covenant with him for a lasting covenant, and to his seed after him.
I called to witness against you this day the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I gave before thee, the blessing and the curse: and choose upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou and thy seed:To love Jehovah thy God; to hear to his voice and to cleave to him (for this thy life and the length of thy days) to dwell upon the land which Jehovah aware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, to give to them.
And be will choose the tribe of Judah, mount Zion which he loved.And he will build his holy place as of buffaloes, as the earth he founded it forever.
And I, this my covenant with them, said Jehovah: my spirit which is upon thee, and my word which I put in thy mouth shall not depart from thy mouth, and from the mouth of thy seed, from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, from now and even forever.
I Jehovah will be to them for God, and my servant David a prince in the midst of them; I Jehovah spake.
And I say to you, that I drink not from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, even till that day when I drink it new with you, in the kingdom of my Father.
Praised the Lord God of Israel; for he reviewed and he has made a redemption for his people,And he raised up a horn of salvation to us in the house of David, his servant;
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.
For no distinction is of the Jew and also of the Greek: for the same Lord of all being rich to all calling upon him.For every one whoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:
And I established my covenant with you; and all flesh shall not be dissipated any more by the waters of a flood and there shall not be any more a flood to destroy the earth.
I, behold my covenant with thee, thou being father of a multitude of nations.And thy name shall no more be called Abram, and thy name shall be Abraham, for the father of a multitude of nations have I given thee.
He made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them: he watched the truth forever.
For this I will divide to him with many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; for which his soul was poured out to death, and he was numbered with transgressors; and he lifted up the sin of many, and he will supplicate for transgressors.
Thus said Jehovah, If ye shall break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, and there was not day and night in their season;Also my covenant shall be broken with David ray servant from there being to him a son reigning upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, from serving me.
And I gave to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in the midst of you; and I turned away the heart of stone from their flesh, and I gave to them a heart of flesh:
Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all,
Brethren, I speak according to man; Although a man's covenant, having been confirmed, none annuls, or orders an addition.
And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Think not that I have come to abolish the law, or the prophets: for I have come not abolish, but to complete.
This the covenant which I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws upon their heart, and upon their minds will I write them;
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Write to thyself these words; for upon the mouth of these words, I made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
And because that he loved thy fathers he will choose in his seed after him, and he will bring thee out before him with his great strength from EgyptTo drive out nations great and strong above thee, from thy face, to bring thee in to give to thee their land an inheritance as this day.
If his sons shall forsake my law, and not go in my judgments;If they shall profane my laws and watch not my commands;And I reviewed their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with blows.
Remember thy compassions, O Jehovah, and thy mercies; for they are from forever.The sins of my youth and my transgressions thou wilt not remember: according to thy mercy remember thou for me for sake of thy goodness, O Jehovah.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as has been written, The Deliverer shall come out of Sion, and turn away profanation from Jacob.And this the covenant to them with me, when I take away their sins.
Song of ascensions to David. Behold, how good and how pleasant the dwelling of brethren even together.
To him striking Egypt in their first-born: for his mercy is forever.And he will bring forth Israel from the midst of them: for his mercy is forever.With a hand of strength, and with an arm stretched out: for his mercy is forever.
Behold my servant, which I have chosen: my dearly beloved, in whom my soul was contented; I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim judgment to the nations.
Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathersBut with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ:
He sent deliverance to his people: he commanded his covenant forever: holy and terrible his name.
And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.And be shall see of the labor of his soul, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge my just servant shall justify for many; and he shall bear their iniquities..
And having gone, learn what is this, I wish mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.
All the ends of the earth shall remember and shall turn back to Jehovah: and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee.
Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God.
And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.
Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:And find grace and good understanding in the eyes of God and man.
Thus said Jehovah, In a time of acceptance I answered thee, and in the day of salvation I helped thee: and I will guard thee, and I will give thee for a covenant of the people to cause the earth to stand, to cause to inherit the inheritance of desolations,To say to the bound, Go forth; to those in darkness, Uncover yourselves. They shall feed upon the ways, and in all naked hills their pastures.
And ye dwelt in the land which I gave to your fathers, and ye were to me for a people, and I shall be to you for God.
For Jehovah is good; his mercy forever and his faithfulness to generation and generation.
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
For I will pour water upon the thirsty, and flowings upon the dry: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.
Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened.
For I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to all believing; both to the Jew first, and the Greek.For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith.
To generation and generation thy faithfulness: thou didst prepare the earth and it will stand.
For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.
The law of Jehovah is blameless, turning back the soul; the testimonies of Jehovah being faithful, making wise the simple.The mandates of Jehovah are straight, rejoicing the heart: the command of Jehovah pure, enlightening the eyes.The fear of Jehovah being pure, standing forever: the judgments of Jehovah, truth, they were altogether justBeing desirable above gold, and above much pure gold, and being sweet above honey, and the dropping of honey-combs.
And the God of peace, having brought up from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ,Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.
I will delight myself in thy commands which I loved.And I will lift up my hands to thy commands which I loved, and I will meditate in thy laws.
I will worship to thy holy temple, and I will praise thy name for thy mercy and for thy truth: for thou didst magnify thy word over all thy name.
Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: thou shalt not look around for help for I thy God will strengthen thee; also I helped thee; also I held thee up with the right hand of my justice.
And Jesus, passing away from thence, saw a man sitting by the custom-house, being called Matthew, and he says to him, Follow me; and having risen he followed him.And it was he sitting at table in the house, and behold, many tax collectors and sinful, having come, sat at table with Jesus and his disciples.
I will not profane my covenant, and I will not change the going forth of my lips.Once did I swear in my holy place if I shall lie to David.
And not as that the word of God has fallen through. For not they all of Israel, they which of Israel:
Ye my witnesses, says Jehovah, and my servants whom I chose: so that ye shall know and trust to me, and understand that I am he: before me was no God formed, and after me shall be none.
And he will remember his covenant to them, and he will console according to the multitude of his mercy.
And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;
Jehovah will complete for me: O Jehovah, thy mercy is forever: thou wilt not let go the works of thy hands.
Praise Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God thou wert great exceedingly; thou didst put on strength and honor:Being covered with light as a garment: stretching forth the heavens as a curtain:Framing his upper chambers in the waters: setting the clouds his chariot: going upon the wings of the wind.Making his messengers spirits; his servants a fire of flame:Founding the earth upon her bases, she shall not be moved forever and even
And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.