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James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
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Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
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Deuteronomy 15:4
However there will be no poor with you( for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)
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2 Corinthians 9 13
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
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Acts 2:45-46
They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
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Revelation 2:9
“ I know your works, oppression, and your poverty( but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
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Romans 12:8
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
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Isaiah 32:5-8
The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
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Luke 21:1-4
He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.He said,“ Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
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2 Corinthians 1 12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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1 Thessalonians 1 6
You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
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2 Corinthians 9 11
you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
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2 Corinthians 6 10
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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1 Thessalonians 3 3-1 Thessalonians 3 4
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
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Nehemiah 8:10-12
Then he said to them,“ Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”So the Levites calmed all the people, saying,“ Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
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1 Thessalonians 2 14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
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Mark 12:42-44
A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.He called his disciples to himself, and said to them,“ Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”