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NASB | 2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 9:7 Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift]. [Prov 22:9] |
Subject: Is tithing a command for chriatians? |
Bible Note: Yes I do take it literally for there is not any reason to consider it otherwise. The question with the Abrahamic Covenant is whether or not you view it as conditional or unconditional. If you view it as unconditional, one has to ask the question, what happened to Esau? Deuteronomy 30 shows the promise to be conditional. Only those with faith become heirs and that is through Christ. Deuteronomy 30:16-20: 16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." As far as the land promise all cam to pass, Joshua 21:43 – 45: 43 Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. 44 And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. It is expanded to include the whole world. Val, I try, and sometimes am not very good simply because I’m not at studied as some, to take the Bible in its totality. I’m getting better thanks be to God. Looking at individual parts and pieces can leave us wondering sometimes as I often have. Looking at the complete revelation that God has graciously given us in regard to that wondering, usually brings to light things that weren’t once illuminated. All to His glory. Stand in His grace, WOS |