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Mark 14:6-8
But Jesus said,“ Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.
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2 Corinthians 8 2-2 Corinthians 8 3
for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,
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Titus 1:2
in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
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Mark 12:41-44
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny.And he called his disciples to him and said to them,“ Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box.For they all contributed out of their abundance, 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 readiness is there, it 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 have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.
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1 Chronicles 29 2-1 Chronicles 29 3
So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:
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2 Chronicles 6 8
But the Lord said to David my father,‘ Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
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Psalms 62:9
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
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Proverbs 19:1
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
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Job 6:15
My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away,
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Job 17:5
He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.
