17 Bible Verses about Reciprocity
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Indeed, the more your faith, speech, knowledge, enthusiasm, and love for us increase, the more we want you to be rich in this work of kindness.
Therefore, whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them, because this summarizes the Law and the Prophets."
I was overjoyed to find some of your children living truthfully, just as the Father has commanded us.
At the present time, your surplus fills their need, so that their surplus may fill your need. In this way things are fair.
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
Do us a favor I ask you as my children and open wide your hearts.
If you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don't they?
Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he will eat with me.
Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:
"So now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.
I've told you this, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.
Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience.
From Thematic Bible
Treaty » Reciprocity
King Hiram of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he learned that Solomon had been anointed king to replace his father, because Hiram had been David's lifelong friend. Solomon sent this message to Hiram: "You know that my father David was unable to build a temple dedicated to the LORD his God because he was busy fighting wars all around him until the LORD defeated his enemies. read more.
But now the LORD has given me rest all around, since I have neither foreign adversaries nor domestic crises. So now I'm planning to build a temple dedicated to the LORD my God, just as the LORD told my father when he said, "Your son, whom I will set on your throne to replace you, will build the Temple dedicated to me.' Now therefore please order that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, because you know there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians do." As soon as Hiram received the message from Solomon, he became so ecstatic that he exclaimed, "Blessed be the LORD today, who has given David a wise son to rule this great people!" Then he sent this message to Solomon: "I have read the letter that you sent me. I'll do what you've asked about the cedar and cypress timber. My servants will transport them from Lebanon to the sea, where we'll make them into rafts and float them by sea to the port that you tell me to send them. We'll have them prepared for transport there and then you can carry them from there. You can meet my needs by providing provisions for my household." That's how Hiram came to provide Solomon as much cedar and cypress timber as he needed. In return, Solomon paid Hiram 20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and 20 kors of beaten oil. Solomon provided this amount every year during the construction. The LORD continued giving Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised, and Hiram and Solomon entered into a peace treaty between themselves.
