Pay all your debts as you agreed to do.
And live within the means God's love does bring.
For he said "Give! & you'll be given to."
For giving out evokes God's clear blessing.
Be under obligation to no one—
the only obligation you have is
to love each one you meet under God's sun.
God's Law's obeyed by whoever does this!
This is what I mean, friends: When you meet for
the worship, or acknowledgement of God,
each person brings a contribution or
something to build the group up, even odd
things numbered dif'rently, or not the norm,
but something that you've seen (with help from God)
that's likely to see life of Christ be formed
within this group, wherever they have trod.
There is no need to write to you folk now
about the love that's growing each for all.
For you yourselves have been taught by God how
you should love each the other, big or small.
And when you don't quite know what you should do,
then Jesus' way might give you help to see
the forward way for you with people who
are in your path to be loved, as does he.
So give to those who ask, as you'd be pleased
for someone else to give, if you asked them.
And love, do good, and lend, to enemies
you will be children of the Most High then.
Give to others, and God will give to you. Indeed, you will receive a full measure, a generous helping, poured into your hands—all that you can hold. The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.” Luke 6:38 GNTD
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35 NIVUK
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8 NIVUK
Be under obligation to no one—the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law. Romans 13:8 GNTD
This is what I mean, my friends. When you meet for worship, one person has a hymn, another a teaching, another a revelation from God, another a message in strange tongues, and still another the explanation of what is said. Everything must be of help to the church. 1 Corinthians 14:26 GNTD
There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 GNTD
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:11-12 NIVUK
Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. ‘If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Luke 6:30-35 NIVUK
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