TOPICAL BIBLE
Beneficence
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2 Corinthians 8:13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,2 Corinthians 8:14but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.2 Corinthians 8:15As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”2 Corinthians 8:24Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.2 Corinthians 9:1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,2 Corinthians 9:2for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.2 Corinthians 9:3But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,2 Corinthians 9:4so that I won’t by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.2 Corinthians 9:5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.2 Corinthians 9:6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.2 Corinthians 9:7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.2 Corinthians 9:8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.2 Corinthians 9:9As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”2 Corinthians 9:10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;2 Corinthians 9:11you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.2 Corinthians 9:12For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;2 Corinthians 9:13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;2 Corinthians 9:14while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.2 Corinthians 9:15Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!Galatians 2:10They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.Philippians 4:10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.Philippians 4:11Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.Philippians 4:12I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.Philippians 4:14However you did well that you shared in my affliction.Philippians 4:15You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.Philippians 4:16For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.Philippians 4:17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.Philippians 4:18But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.1 Timothy 5:8But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.1 Timothy 5:16If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.1 Timothy 6:18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;2 Timothy 1:16May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,2 Timothy 1:17but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me2 Timothy 1:18(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.Hebrews 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.Hebrews 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.James 2:15And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,James 2:16and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled;” and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?1 John 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
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