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 person should give as he decides in his heart, not with sadness or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
My point is this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each person should give as he decides in his heart, not with sadness or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance so that you will always have everything you need to abound in every good work. As it is written,
"He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever."
Now may he who provides seed to the sower, and bread for food, also multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness! May you be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, and through us may your generosity produce thanksgiving to God! For this ministry of giving is not only providing for the needs of the saints in Jerusalem but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God.
Now may he who provides seed to the sower, and bread for food, also multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness!
May you be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, and through us may your generosity produce thanksgiving to God!
For if the eager willingness is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one 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.
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. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be put into your lap. For with the same measure you use it will be measured to you in return."
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be put into your lap. For with the same measure you use it will be measured to you in return."
Give to everyone who asks of yoʋ, and if anyone takes away yoʋr belongings, do not demand them back.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
Give to everyone who asks of yoʋ, and do not turn away from anyone who wants to borrow from yoʋ.
So when yoʋ give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before yoʋ, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward. But when yoʋ give to the needy, do not let yoʋr left hand know what yoʋr right hand is doing, so that yoʋr giving may be in secret. Then yoʋr Father who sees in secret will himself reward yoʋ openly.
The King will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, 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?
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him.
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them anything to address their physical needs, what is the benefit? In the same way faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.