Ecclesiastes 11:6

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

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

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

“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.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

For 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.

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

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

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

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

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

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

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

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

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

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,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

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

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.