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Mark 14:6-8
Jesus replied,“ Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for me.You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.She has done what she could; she has anointed my body in advance for burial.
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2 Corinthians 8 2-2 Corinthians 8 3
During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.I can testify that, according to their ability and even beyond their ability, of their own accord,
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Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
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Mark 12:41-44
Sitting across from the temple treasury, he watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.Then a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little.Summoning his disciples, he said to them,“ Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had— all she had to live on.”
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2 Corinthians 8 12
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
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1 Chronicles 29 17
I know, my God, that you test the heart and that you are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to you.
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1 Chronicles 29 2-1 Chronicles 29 3
So to the best of my ability I’ve made provision for the house of my God: gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx, stones for mounting, antimony, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the house of my God over and above all that I’ve provided for the holy house:
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2 Chronicles 6 8
However, the LORD said to my father David,“ Since it was your desire to build a temple for my name, you have done well to have this desire.
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Psalms 62:9
Common people are only a vapor; important people, an illusion. Together on a scale, they weigh less than a vapor.
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Proverbs 19:1
Better a poor person who lives with integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.
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Job 6:15
My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi, as seasonal streams that overflow
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Job 17:5
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
