Thematic Bible: Examples of systematic
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Benevolence » Examples of systematic » Freely
Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume.
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Cure the sick, raise the dead to life, cleanse lepers, drive out demons: you have received without payment, give without payment.
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give, and gifts shall be bestowed on you. Full measure, pressed, shaken down, and running over, shall they pour into your laps; for with the same measure that you use they shall measure to you in return."
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Benevolence » Examples of systematic » Scriptural rules for giving
To him who asks, give: from him who would borrow, turn not away.
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Benevolence » Examples of systematic » Regularly, every week
On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on.
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Benevolence » Examples of systematic » Cheerfully
Let each contribute what he has decided upon in his own mind, and not do it reluctantly or under compulsion. "It is a cheerful giver that God loves."
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Benevolence » Examples of systematic » With simplicity
The teacher must do the same in his teaching; and he who exhorts others, in his exhortation. He who gives should be liberal; he who is in authority should be energetic and alert; and he who succours the afflicted should do it cheerfully.
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Benevolence » Examples of systematic » Without ostentation
But when you are giving in charity, let not your left hand perceive what your right hand is doing,
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