Luke 12:33

1599 Geneva Bible

³³¶ ^(A)^[a]Sell that ye have, and give ^[b]alms: make you bags which wax not old: a treasure that can never fail in heaven, where no thief cometh neither moth corrupteth.

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Luke 12:33 A godly bountifulness is a ready way to get true riches.
Luke 12:33 This is the figure Metonymy, for by this word, Alms, is meant that compassion and friendliness of an heart that tendereth the misery and poor estate of man, and showeth forth itself by some gift, and hath the name given it in the Greek tongue, of mercy and compassion: and therefore he is said to give alms, who parteth with some thing to another, and giveth to the poor, showing thereby, that he pitieth their poor estate.

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1 Timothy 6:19

1599 Geneva Bible

¹⁹^(A)^[a]Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may obtain eternal life.

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1 Timothy 6:19 The praise of liberality by the effects thereof: because it is a sure testimony of the Spirit of God which dwelleth in us, and therefore of the salvation that shall be given us.

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