posted August 26, 2000 09:02 PM            

Matthew 6:21 - For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Matthew 6:33 - But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

James 2:16 - …and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?

Thoughts...
"…The GIVER is more precious than the gift; he is the 'treasure'; in him abides his Son's heart; the gift is given 'as well.'…"#2604

"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 GIVING himself and entering into communion with other persons." #357

"…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-GIVING." #1609

"…They 'are called to grow continually in their communion through day-to-day fidelity to their marriage promise of total mutual self-GIVING.'…" #1644

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MB Concepts in Christian Scripture (Love Bank)

Matthew 6:21 - For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Matthew 6:19-20 - "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Matthew 12:35 - The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Proverbs 10:2 – Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 21:20 - Precious treasure remains in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

Luke 19:22-23 - 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 bank, and at my coming I should have collected it with interest?'

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