2 Corinthians 9:7

Each person should give as they have resolved in their own heart, without reluctance or pressure, because God loves a cheerful giver. The attitude matters as much as the amount.

Cross-references · 15

• 2 Cor 8:12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
• Acts 20:35In 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.’”
• 1 Chr 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
• Exod 25:2“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
• Prov 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
• Deut 15:7–11If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
• Prov 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
• 1 Pet 4:9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
• Rom 12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
• Exod 35:5‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, brass,
• Isa 32:8But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
• Prov 23:6–8Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:
• Deut 15:14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
• Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
• Isa 32:5The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

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