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³⁸Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again.”

²⁴For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.

³⁵I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

⁶But I say this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. And whoever sows with blessings shall also reap from blessings:

³You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

¹⁰When you pour out your life for the hungry, and you satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise up in darkness, and your darkness will be like the midday. ¹¹And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.

²⁵And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your sins.

¹³Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your sons, how much more will your Father give, from heaven, a spirit of goodness to those who ask him?”

⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

²⁴Until now, you have not requested anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, so that your joy may be full.

¹⁷Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.

¹⁰asking only that we should be mindful of the poor, which was the very thing that I also was solicitous to do.

¹Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. ²Grace and peace to you from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, in Christ, ⁴just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy and immaculate in his sight, in charity. ⁵He has predestined us to adoption as sons, through Jesus Christ, in himself, according to the purpose of his will, ⁶for the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has gifted us in his beloved Son.

⁹When you will have harvested the grain fields of your land, you shall not cut it down to the surface of the land, even to the ground, nor shall you gather the remaining ears of grain. ¹⁰Neither shall you gather the clusters or individual grapes which fall down in your vineyard, but you shall leave them for paupers and travelers to take. I am the Lord your God.