Giving To The Poor

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

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

“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.”

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

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.’”

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

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

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.”

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

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

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

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.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

“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 →

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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 →

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. — read the full passage →

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

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.

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. — read the full passage →

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

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

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in 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.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

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

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

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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 →

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

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

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 →

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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

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.

“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.’

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; — read the full passage →

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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.

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

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

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

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.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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;

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.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

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

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

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.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

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 →

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

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

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

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

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. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.