Bible Dictionary: The Poor: Offerings of, Acceptable to God

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Mark 12:42-44
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
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2 Corinthians 8:2,12
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
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Liberality to the Poor is Recommended by the Example of the Widow ...
... husband unviolated, be able to support her dear children, and to minister to the
poor. ... No return is more acceptable to God than the offerings of piety. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter v liberality to the.htm

Separation to God.
... The offerings to be made on the conclusion of ... his own enlightened conscience, nor
be acceptable to GOD ... And, remembering my own poor efforts, The wretched work ...
/.../taylor/separation and service/part i separation to god.htm

Proof that God did not Appoint the Levitical Dispensation for his ...
... burnt-offerings and sacrifices are not acceptable to Me ... them out of Egypt, concerning
burnt-offerings or sacrifices ... and the proselyte, and the poor; and let none ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xvii proof that god did.htm

A Reasonable Service
... He was a Jew and he knew all about offerings. ... ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God ... incident in my own life of a poor German boy ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and judas iscariot/a reasonable service.htm

First Sunday after Epiphany
... of the Jews in their works and offerings, and of ... ye may prove what is the good and
acceptable and perfect ... Daily we prefer to be poor, sick and despised, to be ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/first sunday after epiphany.htm

What a Sacrifice Is, and what are the Species of Sacrifice.
... and, according to Plato, are truly kakoi mageiroi (poor butchers), since ... the Holy
Ghost, ie, that the Gentiles might be offerings acceptable to God by faith ...
/.../melanchthon/the apology of the augsburg confession/part 30 what a sacrifice.htm

Christianity, by Its Provision for the Flesh, Has Put on it the ...
... before God has been conferred on this poor and worthless ... Those sacrifices, moreover,
which are acceptable to God"I ... 7342] of it, are fragrant offerings to God ...
/.../on the resurrection of the flesh/chapter viii christianity by its provision.htm

The Last Word of Prophecy
... led to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God. ... promises blessings as results
of such offerings, and a ... peasant who brought his king a poor tribute of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the last word of prophecy.htm

Epistle Lxxvi. Cyprian to Nemesianus and Other Martyrs in the ...
... that suffer, mercy in cherishing the poor, constancy in ... yourselves as holy and unspotted
offerings, as the ... bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God ...
/.../cyprian/the epistles of cyprian/epistle lxxvi cyprian to nemesianus.htm

Thoughts Upon Worldly-Riches. Sect. Ii.
... Piety towards God, and of Charity to the Poor, or as ... 6, 7. Indeed God accepts of
none but Freewill Offerings. ... a way as is most pleasing and acceptable unto God ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon worldly-riches sect ii.htm