Bible Dictionary: Liberality: Pleasing to God

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2 Corinthians 9:7
Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Hebrews 13:16
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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Library

Whether Liberality is the Greatest of the virtues?
... Now man is likened chiefly by liberality to God, "Who giveth to ... to be more excellent
than liberality, although liberality is more pleasing." The Philosopher ...
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Question And. . Question Reversed
... benignity and liberality of God, that, though these works are unworthy, yet He rewards
them with a larger blessing. Therefore, as the word "pleasing" admits of ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/question and question reversed 3.htm

Whether in Christ There were virtues?
... effects some of these by itself"-as to make him pleasing to God, and the ... Reply to
Objection 3: Liberality and magnificence are praiseworthy in regard to ...
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Holy Exercises of Pure Love to God.
... I do joyfully accept and am glad of all that is pleasing to God, be ... 3. And I praise
and exalt my God for His great goodness and liberality therein showed ...
/.../holy exercises of pure love.htm

The Precepts of the Apostle Concerning a Widow Indeed are Laid ...
... which thou hast learnt to be well pleasing to God ... it is said, "and desolate, must
hope in God, and be ... thirdly, the ministry of mercy and liberality in assisting ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter ii the precepts of.htm

The Gnostic Aims at the Nearest Likeness Possible to God and his ...
... Forms of fortitude are endurance, magnanimity, high spirit, liberality, and grandeur. ...
men is of paramount importance"the doing of what is pleasing to God. ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iii the gnostic aims at.htm

Introduction
... but according to the Seventh Commandment, will use it with cheerful liberality for
the ... is the only source of all truly good works and well-pleasing to God. ...
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Acts xx. 32
... This do: surpass us in liberality: have a room, to which Christ may come; say ... But
from all these shall all things proceed that are pleasing to God, and thus ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xlv acts xx 32.htm

part i.
... That liberality is sometimes the offspring of the kindly tendencies of our natures,
is ... 2:5.) But if regularity in other things is pleasing to God under the ...
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The Lawful and Unlawful Use of Law.
... A principle requires liberality, a maxim says one-tenth. ... of it by the Ephesian
teachers."v.4. It seemed to them that law was pleasing to God as restraint. ...
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