Ecclesiastes 5:4-5
4When ayou vow a vow to God, bdo not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. cPay what you vow. 5 dIt is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.Mark 12:41-44
The Widow’s Offering
41 eAnd he sat down opposite fthe treasury and watched the people gputting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. 42And a poor widow came and put in two hsmall copper coins, which make a penny. ▼▼Greek two lepta, which make a kodrantes; a kodrantes (Latin quadrans) was a Roman copper coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius (which was a day’s wage for a laborer)
43And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, jthis poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. 44For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her kpoverty has put in everything she had, all lshe had to live on.” Mark 14:8
8 mShe has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand nfor burial.2 Corinthians 8:12
12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable oaccording to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
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