Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
“Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?”
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name. “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.”
“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—
The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
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