2 Corinthians 9:7

World English Bible (2000)

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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  • Exod 25:2 : 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
  • 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
  • Rom 12:8 : 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; 8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants. 9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you. 10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
  • Deut 15:14 : 14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
  • Exod 35:5 : 5 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass,
  • Prov 11:25 : 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
  • Prov 23:6-8 : 6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies: 7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
  • Isa 32:5 : 5 The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
  • Isa 32:8 : 8 But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

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  • 2 Cor 9:5-6
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    5 I 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.

    6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • Deut 16:17
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    17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.

  • 2 Cor 9:8-13
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    8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

    9 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."

    10 Now 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;

    11 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

    12 For 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;

    13 seeing 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 Cor 8:11-15
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    11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

    12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.

    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

    14 but 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.

    15 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

  • Deut 15:9-10
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    9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

    10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

  • Rom 12:8
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    8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

  • Prov 22:9
    72%

    9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Exod 25:2
    72%

    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

  • 1 Cor 16:1-2
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    1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

    2 On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

  • Eph 6:6-7
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    6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

    7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

  • Luke 6:38
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    38 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."

  • 1 Tim 6:17-18
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    17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

    18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

  • 1 Chr 29:9
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    9 Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

  • 2 Cor 8:2-3
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    2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

    3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

  • Acts 11:29
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    29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

  • 2 Cor 7:9
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    9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • 2 Cor 8:7-9
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    7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

    9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

  • Col 3:23
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    23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

  • 1 Cor 9:17
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    17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

  • Mal 3:8
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    8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

  • Rom 2:6
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    6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

  • Gal 6:6
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    6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

  • Exod 35:29
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    29 The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

  • Eccl 5:19
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    19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

  • 1 Cor 7:7
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    7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  • 1 Pet 4:10
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    10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

  • Phil 4:17
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    17 Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

  • Deut 16:10
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    10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:

  • Exod 35:5
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    5 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass,

  • Gal 6:9
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    9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

  • Mal 3:10
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    10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.