2 Corinthians 12:13

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

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.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

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

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”

You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.

He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

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.’”

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. “But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.