MB Concepts in Christian Scripture (<A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3550_give.html" TARGET=_blank>Giver and Taker</A>)<P><B>Matthew 6:21</B> - For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. <P><B>Matthew 6:33</B> - But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.<P><B>James 2:16</B> - …and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without <B>giving</B> them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?<P><BR>Thoughts...<BR>"…The <B>GIVER</B> is more precious than the gift; he is the 'treasure'; in him abides his Son's heart; the gift is given 'as well.'…"#2604<P>"Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely <B>GIVING</B> himself and entering into communion with other persons." #357<P>"…marriage helps to overcome self-absorption, egoism, pursuit of one's own pleasure, and to open oneself to the other, to mutual aid and to self-<B>GIVING</B>." #1609<P>"…They 'are called to grow continually in their communion through day-to-day fidelity to their marriage promise of total mutual self-<B>GIVING</B>.'…" #1644<P>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<P>Back to <A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/Forum29/HTML/000288.html" TARGET=_blank> MB Concepts in Christian Scripture</A><P>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<P>MB Concepts in Christian Scripture (<A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/graphic/mbi3200_love.html" TARGET=_blank>Love Bank</A>)<P><B>Matthew 6:21</B> - For where your <B>treasure</B> is, there will your heart be also. <P><B>Matthew 6:19-20</B> - "Do not lay up for yourselves <B>treasures</B> on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves <B>treasures</B> in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.<P><B>Matthew 12:35</B> - The good man out of his good <B>treasure</B> brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil <B>treasure</B> brings forth evil.<P><B>Proverbs 10:2</B> – <B>Treasures</B> gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.<P><B>Proverbs 21:20</B> - Precious <B>treasure</B> remains in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.<P><B>Luke 19:22-23</B> - He said to him, 'I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not put my money into the <B>bank</B>, and at my coming I should have collected it with interest?'<P>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<P>Back to <A HREF="http://www.marriagebuilders.com/forum/Forum29/HTML/000288.html" TARGET=_blank> MB Concepts in Christian Scripture</A>
