Reference: Gift, Giving
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GIFT, GIVING
I. In the OT.
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and they went into the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they threw themselves down and did homage to him. They opened their treasure boxes and presented the child with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Be quick and come to terms with your opponent while you are on the way to court with him, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.
"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,
Then Levi gave a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great throng of tax-collectors and others who were at table with them.
If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.
Now there was a woman in the town who was leading a sinful life, and when she learned that he was having dinner at the Pharisee's house, she got an alabaster flask of perfume,
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,
When some spoke about the Temple and its decoration with costly stone and votive offerings, he said,
They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him.
The disciples determined to make up a contribution, each according to his ability, and send it to the brothers who lived in Judea,
At the same time he hoped to get money from Paul, and for that reason he used to send for him very often and talk with him.
In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.
So it says, "When he went up on high, he led a host of captives, And gave gifts to mankind."
Even when I was at Thessalonica you sent money more than once for my needs.
The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate by sending presents to one another, for these two prophets were a torment to the inhabitants of the earth.
The heathen will walk by its light. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it.