Aslan International Ministry – Church Finances

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Luke 14:28 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Luke 16:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

Luke 6:38 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Haggai 2:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

1 Timothy 6:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. …

Genesis 28:20-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Genesis 14:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

1 Timothy 6:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.

2 Corinthians 8:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. …

Matthew 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

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