- He must increase, but I must decrease.
- When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them?
- And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you.
- Because in much wisdom there is much grief; and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.
- Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
- Wealth obtained from nothing dwindles,
But one who gathers by labor increases it. - Honor the Lord from your wealth,
And from the first of all your produce. - What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
- He gives strength to the weary,
And to the one who lacks might He increases power. - One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility.
- If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- The Lord also restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased double all that Job had.
- We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is only fitting, because your faith is increasing abundantly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another grows ever greater.
- God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
- In that I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it.
- So the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace, as it was being built up; and as it continued in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it kept increasing.
A prudent person sees evil and hides himself;
But the naive proceed, and pay the penalty.