Bible verses about "increase" | Goodspeed

²⁶ His master answered, 'You wicked, idle slave! You knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed? ²⁷ Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and then when I came back I would have gotten my property with interest. ²⁸ So take the thousand dollars away from him, and give it to the man who has the ten thousand, ²⁹ for the man who has will have more given him, and will be plentifully supplied, and from the man who has nothing even what he has will be taken away. ³⁰ And put the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness outside, to weep and grind his teeth there.'

⁸ Owe nobody anything—except the duty of mutual love, for whoever loves his fellow-men has fully satisfied the Law. ⁹ For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself." ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow. ⁷ So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for anything, but only God who makes the plants grow.

²⁰ To him who by the exertion of his power within us can do unutterably more than all we ask or imagine,

³⁰ He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

²⁴ "Take care what you hear," he said to them. "The measure you give will be given to you, and even more besides.

³⁸ Give, and they will give to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, they will pour into your lap. For the measure you use with others they in turn will use with you."

¹⁰ He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.