Give to the Lord, you families of nations, give to the Lord glory and praise; give to the Lord the glory due His name! Bring gifts, and enter His courts. - Psalm 96:7-8
Thus says the Lord, I have called you by your name, giving you a title, though you knew me not. I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me. It is I who arm you, though you know me not, so that toward the rising and the setting of the sun people may know that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, there is no other. (Is 45:4-6) I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land where you live as a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. (Gen 17:8)
Jesus said, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” (Mt. 22:21)
Give back to them according to the work of their hands; Repay them what is due them. (Ps 28:4) You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work, and in all your undertakings. (Dt. 15:10)
By loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding close to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, so that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them. (Dt. 30:20)
Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; awesome is He, beyond all gods. For all the gods of the nations are things of naught but the Lord made the heavens. (Ps 96:4-5) Worship the Lord in holy attire. Tremble before him, all the earth; say among the nations: the Lord is king; He governs the peoples with equity. (Ps 96:9-10)
The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land'—He will send His angel ahead of you (Gen 24:7). May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, so that you may possess the land where you live as a stranger (Gen 28:4).
We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, knowing, brothers and sisters loved by God, how you were chosen. For our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction. (1 Thes 1:2-5)
