Reference: Gift, Giving
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GIFT, GIVING
I. In the OT.
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and went into the house and saw the child with His mother, Mary; and they fell at His feet and worshiped Him. They opened up their treasure sacks and presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.
"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
but you say if a man tells his father or mother, 'Everything I have that may be of use to you is Corban,' that is, consecrated to God,
Then Levi gave a great reception for Him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax-collectors and others who were at table with them.
Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.
There was a woman in the town who was a social outcast, and when she learned that He was taking dinner at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster bottle of perfume
and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had gone,
Now while some people were talking about the temple, how it was decorated with beautiful stones and votive-offerings, He said,
So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus.
So the disciples decided to send a contribution, each in proportion to his prosperity, to help the brothers who lived in Judea.
At the same time he was hoping to get money from Paul, and so he kept on sending for him and talking with him.
In this matter it has ever been my ambition to tell the good news where Christ's name had never been mentioned, so as not to build upon foundations laid by other men,
Concerning this the Scripture says: "He led a host of captives, when He went up on high, and granted gifts to men."
Even while I was at Thessalonica you sent money more than once for my needs.
The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate with feasts and the sending of gifts to one another, because these two prophets had tormented the inhabitants of the earth.
The nations will walk by its light; the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.