20 Bible Verses about People Providing
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But also our [people] must learn to engage in good deeds for necessary needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.
And I will provide for you there, because [there are] still five years of famine--lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.'
So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and {spoke kindly} to them.
For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you {wherever I turned}. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?"
And they will come, and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh, over [the] grain, and over [the] wine, and over [the] olive oil, and over [the] young ones of [the] flock, and over [the] cattle. And their life will become like a well-watered garden, and they will never languish again."
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
But if someone does not provide for his own [relatives], and especially the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
They also honored us with many honors, and [when we] were putting out to sea, they gave [us] the [things] {we needed}.
Now I rejoice over the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these make up for your absence,
At the present time your abundance [will be] for their need, in order that their abundance may also be for your need, so that there may be equality,
And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].
night and day praying beyond all measure that [we] may see your face and complete what is lacking in your faith?
Diligently send on their way Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that {they may lack nothing}.
Now Barzillai [was] very old, {eighty years old}. Now he had provided the king [with food] while he [was] staying at Mahanaim, for he [was] a very wealthy man.
The king said to Barzillai, "You cross over with me, and I will provide for you [to dwell] with me in Jerusalem."
So I have provided for the house of my God according to all my strength, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, [along with] an abundance of onyx stones, stones for settings, stones of turquoise, and variegated stones, and all [kinds of] precious stones and alabaster stones. And moreover, with respect to my provisions for the house of my God I have a treasure of gold and silver that I have given to the house of my God above all that I have provided for the holy house: three thousand talents of gold from the gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the walls of the houses,read more.
gold for the golden things and silver for the silver things, for all the work by the hand of skilled craftsmen. Now who will offer willingly, {consecrating himself} today to Yahweh?"
Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his palace, {each one was to sustain for each month of the year}.
And the land could not {support them} [so as] to live together, because their possessions were [so] many that they were not able to live together.
For their possessions were {too many to live together}, so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock.
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Genesis 42:19If you [are] honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison {where you are now being kept}, but [the rest of] you go, carry grain for the famine for your households.