29 “Your full produce and the overflow of your press you must not give hesitantly.+ The firstborn of your sons you are to give to me.+

17 And I well know, O my God, that you are an examiner of the heart,+ and that it is in rectitude that you take pleasure.+ I, for my part, in the uprightness of my heart have voluntarily offered all these things, and now your people who are on hand here I have enjoyed seeing make offerings voluntarily to you.

25 The generous soul* will itself be made fat,+ and the one freely watering [others] will himself also be freely watered.+

35 I have exhibited to YOU in all things that by thus laboring+ YOU must assist those who are weak,+ and must bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, when he himself said, ‘There is more happiness in giving+ than there is in receiving.’”

8 or he that exhorts, [let him be] at his exhortation;+ he that distributes, [let him do it] with liberality;+ he that presides,*+ [let him do it] in real earnest; he that shows mercy,+ [let him do it] with cheerfulness.

16 Moreover, do not forget the doing of good+ and the sharing of things with others, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.+