Philippians 4:17

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¹⁶ For even while I was still in Thessalonica, you sent once and again for my needs. ¹⁷ It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account. ¹⁸ But I give you a receipt in full for all things abound. I am amply supplied with what you sent by Epaphroditus??n odor of sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

With God

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Titus 3:14

Let them want nothing, and "let our people learn to devote themselves to honest work to supply the necessities of their teachers," so that they be not unfruitful.

Matthew 10:40-42

"Whoever receives you is receiving me, and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me.

Matthew 25:34-40

"Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Luke 14:12-14

Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

John 15:8

"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.

John 15:16

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Acts 20:33-34

"No man's silver or gold of clothing did I ever covet.

Romans 15:28

When, therefore, I have settled this, and have secured to them the poor at Jerusalem the fruit of this collection, I shall come on by you into Spain.

1 Corinthians 9:11-15

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

2 Corinthians 9:5

So I have thought that I must ask these brothers to visit you beforehand, and get your promised contribution ready in advance. I want it to be given of your bounty, not extorted from your covetousness.

2 Corinthians 9:9-13

As it is written. He scattered broadcast, he gave to the poor; His almsgiving continues forever.

2 Corinthians 11:16

I say again, let no one think me a fool. Or, if you must, at least bear with me as a fool, that I, too, may do a little boasting.

Philippians 1:11

being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 4:11

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness!

1 Timothy 3:3

no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover;

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Titus 1:7

For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you showed for his cause, in sending help to your fellow Christians, as you are still doing.

1 Peter 5:2

Be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly, and not through compulsion; not for filthy lucre, but with a willing mind;

2 Peter 2:3

In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

2 Peter 2:15

They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

Jude 1:11

Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaam's error, and have perished in Koran's rebellion.