"Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift." (2 Corinthians 9:15)

"All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." (Psalm 45:8)

"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments." (1 John 2:3)

"There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." (Proverbs 11:24)

"To get, we must give." This is not the world's method for attaining prosperity, but it is the paradoxical message of today's verse, as well as that of Christianity in general.

"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son." (Hebrews 1:1-2)