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 there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
• Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• 1 Chr 29:17I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
• Exod 25:2Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
• Prov 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
• Deut 15:7–11If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
• Prov 22:9He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
• 1 Pet 4:9Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
• Rom 12:8Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
• Exod 35:5Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
• Isa 32:8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
• Prov 23:6–8Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
• Deut 15:14Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
• Jas 5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• Isa 32:5The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

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