Bible Cross References
desire
1 Chronicles 29:2
I have made every effort to prepare materials for the Temple---gold, silver, bronze, iron, timber, precious stones and gems, stones for mosaics, and quantities of marble.
1 Chronicles 29:3
Over and above all this that I have provided, I have given silver and gold from my personal property because of my love for God's Temple.
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know that you test everyone's heart and are pleased with people of integrity. In honesty and sincerity I have willingly given all this to you, and I have seen how your people who are gathered here have been happy to bring offerings to you.
2 Chronicles 6:8
but the LORD said to him, 'You were right in wanting to build a temple for me,
Mark 12:41-44
41
As Jesus sat near the Temple treasury, he watched the people as they dropped in their money. Many rich men dropped in a lot of money;
42
then a poor widow came along and dropped in two little copper coins, worth about a penny.
43
He called his disciples together and said to them, "I tell you that this poor widow put more in the offering box than all the others.
44
For the others put in what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, put in all she had---she gave all she had to live on."
Mark 14:6-8
6
But Jesus said, "Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done a fine and beautiful thing for me.
7
You will always have poor people with you, and any time you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.
8
She did what she could; she poured perfume on my body to prepare it ahead of time for burial.
2 Corinthians 8:2
They have been severely tested by the troubles they went through; but their joy was so great that they were extremely generous in their giving, even though they are very poor.
2 Corinthians 8:3
I can assure you that they gave as much as they could, and even more than they could. Of their own free will
2 Corinthians 8:12
If you are eager to give, God will accept your gift on the basis of what you have to give, not on what you don't have.
and
Proverbs 19:1
It is better to be poor but honest than to be a lying fool.
Job 6:15
But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.
Job 17:5
In the old proverb someone betrays his friends for money, and his children suffer for it.
Psalm 62:9
Human beings are all like a puff of breath; great and small alike are worthless. Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing; they are lighter than a mere breath.
Titus 1:2
which is based on the hope for eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised us this life before the beginning of time,