Nehemiah 5:18

There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

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

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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.

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,

“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

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

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

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

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

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.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”

But as one was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”

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.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

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

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.” They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

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

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.’”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

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.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

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

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

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.

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.

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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?

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

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.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

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.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”