Reference: Gift, Giving
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GIFT, GIVING
I. In the OT.
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And, coming into the house, they saw the Child with Mary, His mother; and, falling down, they paid Him homage; and, having opened their treasures, they presented to Him gifts??old and frankincense and myrrh.
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
"Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, otherwise at least ye have no reward with your Father Who is in Heaven.
But ye say, 'If a man say to his father or mother, That wherewith you might be profited by me is Corban,' that is, 'an offering to God,'
And Levi made a great reception for Him in his house; and there was a great multitude of tax-collectors and of others who were reclining at table with them.
"And, if ye love those who love you, what charm have you? for even the sinners love those who love them.
And, behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner; and, learning that He was reclining at table in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster cruse of perfume;
and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
And, as some were speaking about the temple, "With what beautiful stones and offerings it has been adorned," He said,
They, therefore, made Him a supper there; and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with Him.
And the disciples, according as any one of them was being prospered, determined, each of them, to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judaea;
at the same time also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul; wherefore, also, sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.
and, making it my aim so to proclaim the Gospel??ot where Christ was already named??hat I might not build upon another's foundation;
Wherefore, He saith, "Having ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."
because even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my need.
And those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry, and they will send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented those dwelling on the earth.
And the nations will walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it.