Giving To Others

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. — read the full passage →

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

But Peter said, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

“‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, — read the full passage →

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight. — read the full passage →

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, — read the full passage →

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. — read the full passage →

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. — read the full passage →

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. — read the full passage →

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” — read the full passage →

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. — read the full passage →

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for. — read the full passage →

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan. — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. — read the full passage →

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?” — read the full passage →

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Give us today our daily bread.