LUKE 2:52

52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

2 CORINTHIANS 8:8-9

8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

2 CORINTHIANS 8:2

2 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.

2 CORINTHIANS 8:3-4

3 For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing,

4 imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

2 CORINTHIANS 9:7

7 So let each one give…not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 CORINTHIANS 9: 5-8

5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation.

6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work