But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things are from You, and out of Your own hand we have given to You.

O Jehovah our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name is out of Your hand, and is all Your own.

i1 [A Psalm of David.] i0 par The earth is Jehovah's, and the fullness of it; the world, and those who dwell in it.

for every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts.

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, says Jehovah of Hosts. And in this place I will give peace, says Jehovah of Hosts.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.

Nor is He served with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

And Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and mighty men went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to provide for you.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the Word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

Then the heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all those whose spirit God had aroused to go up and build the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem,

Blessed be Jehovah the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this into the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem,

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.

But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.