Ecclesiastes 11:1

Living In The Light Of The Limits Of Human Knowledge

¹ Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return. ² Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth.

Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters

Proverbs 19:17

The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward."

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed -- whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

Isaiah 32:20

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

Luke 14:14

Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Deuteronomy 15:7-11

If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

Psalm 41:1-2

For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, the Lord delivers him.

Psalm 126:5-6

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked person earns deceitful wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a genuine reward.

Proverbs 11:24-25

One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

Proverbs 22:9

A generous person will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.

Isaiah 32:8

An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.

Matthew 10:13

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 25:40

And the king will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.'

2 Corinthians 9:6

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

Galatians 6:8-10

because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.