Reference: Gift, Giving
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GIFT, GIVING
I. In the OT.
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And having come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother; and falling down, they did him homage. And when they had opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Come to an agreement with your opponent at law quickly, while you are on the road with him, lest your opponent at law deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
Beware of doing your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, What ever of mine might benefit you, is Corban, (which means, a gift,)
And Levi made him a great feast at his own house; and there was a great multitude of publicans and others, who reclined at table with them.
And if you love them that love you, what thanks have you? for even sinners love those who love them.
And, behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she knew that he reclined at table in the house of the Pharisee, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
and also certain women that had been cured of evil spirits and diseases; Mary, called Magdalene, out of whom had gone seven demons,
And as some were saying of the temple, that it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, he said:
There they made him a supper, and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined at table with him.
And every one of the disciples determined, as he had the means, to send relief to the brethren that dwelt in Judea;
He hoped, at the same time, that money would have been given him by Paul, to release him. For this reason, he sent for him very frequently, and conversed with him.
so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;
For which reason, the scripture says: When he ascended on high, he led captive a multitude of captives, and gave gifts to men.
For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent once and again to aid me in my need.
And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and make merry, and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwelt on the earth.
And the nations shall walk by the light of it; and the kings of the earth bring their glory and their honor into it.