Generosidade
A generosidade é marca do caráter de Deus e vocação do cristão. Deus ama ao que dá com alegria. Quem semeia generosamente, generosamente colherá.
Dar com alegria
Deus ama ao que dá com alegria. Cada um contribua segundo propôs no coração — não com tristeza ou por necessidade.
each one, according as he purposes in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver,
And [remember] this: he who is sowing sparingly, will also reap sparingly; and he who is sowing in blessings, will also reap in blessings; each one, according as he purposes in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver, and God [is] able to cause all grace to abound to you, that in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound to every good work, according as it has been written: "He dispersed abroad, He gave to the poor, His righteousness remains throughout the age," and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, being enriched to all liberality in everything, which works thanksgiving through us to God, because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the wants of the holy ones, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
being enriched to all liberality in everything, which works thanksgiving through us to God,
for if the willing mind is present, it is well-accepted according to that which anyone may have, not according to that which he does not have;
Partilhar e abençoar
Quem dá aos pobres empresta ao Senhor. A generosidade abre portas de bênção sobre quem dá e sobre quem recebe.
A liberal soul is made fat, || And whoever is watering, he also is watered.
There is [one] who is scattering, and yet is increased, || And [one] who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want. A liberal soul is made fat, || And whoever is watering, he also is watered.
Honor YHWH from your substance, || And from the beginning of all your increase; And your barns are filled [with] plenty, || And your presses break forth [with] new wine.
Do not withhold good from its owners, || When your hand [is] toward God to do [it].
Whoever is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, || He also cries, and is not answered.
Bring in all the tithe to the treasure-house, || And there is food in My house; When you have tried Me, now, with this," said YHWH of Hosts, || "Do I not open the windows of the heavens to you? Indeed, I have emptied on you a blessing until there is no space.
because the poor does not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding you, saying, You certainly open your hand to your brother, to your poor and to your needy one in your land.
O ensino de Jesus
Dai e dar-se-vos-á. A quem te pedir, dá. O que fizestes a um destes mais pequeninos, a mim o fizestes.
Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they will give into your bosom; for with that measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you again."
Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they will give into your bosom; for with that measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you again."
And to everyone who is asking of you, be giving; and from him who is taking away your goods, do not be asking again;
If, then, you, being evil, have known to be giving good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!"
to him who is asking of you be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from you, you may not turn away.
whenever, therefore, you may do kindness, you may not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; truly I say to you, they have their reward! But you, doing kindness, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, that your kindness may be in secret, and your Father who is seeing in secret will reward you Himself.
And the King answering, will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did [it] to one of these My brothers—the least—you did [it] to Me.
Generosidade de Deus
Se Deus dá sabedoria generosamente a quem pede, quanto mais nos dará Ele forças e suprimento em toda necessidade?
And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all generously, and not reproaching, and it will be given to him;
And if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of daily food, and anyone of you may say to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed, and be filled," but may not give to them the things necessary for the body, what [is] the profit? So also faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.
He is giving power to the weary, || And to those not strong He increases might.
The man—good, gracious, and lending, || He sustains his matters in judgment.