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NASB | Mark 12:30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 12:30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL (life), AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND (thought, understanding), AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.' [Deut 6:4, 5] |
Bible Question: What does the bible say about giving? |
Bible Answer: Hey godlywoman64, I cut and pasted this from: Smith's biblical dictionary to help point you in the right direction. What first come to my mind was the greatest comandment in the new testament(Mark 12:30-31). If we can keep this comandment, we are surely giving all we have to offer to God and to other humanbeings. I hope this helps. Your brother in Christ, Matthew75. Alms The Hebrews had no word for a free gift to the poor, such as alms, but used "righteousness" for such acts, as in Job 29:10-16; Prov. 10:2; Deut. 14:29; 23:24,25; 24:19; 26:12; Lev. 19:9,10; 23:22; 25:5. The laws of Moses made ample provision against poverty, and if they had been strictly kept, in letter and spirit, there could not have been any destitution. The gospel recognizes the duty of almsgiving and enforces it, and this virtue was a special mark of a Christian in the early age. This was not made a definite rule, but was left to the constraint of inward principle and feeling, "to prove the sincerity of their love." Encouragement of idle vagrancy was denounced as wrong, and such idlers were scorned (2 Thess. 3:10-12). The Jews, since the destruction of Jerusalem, have regarded their poor as the people of God, and those who give to them are credited with as much virtue as if they kept all the commandments, and they teach that almsgiving atones for their sins. As Jesus sought the needy and the sick, and kindly ministered help and consolation, so it is his will that his Church shall show the same spirit toward the poor and afflicted. |
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