Psalms 112:9

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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.”

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

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

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

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

“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 shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

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

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

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

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

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.

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.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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

“ ‘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.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

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

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

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?

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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.

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

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

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

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

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

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

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

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

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.’”

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.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

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.

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

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”