100 Verses about Generosity towards others

But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive grove.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.

And he answering said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.

Therefore all things whatever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution to them, and to all men;

The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Jesus said to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?

And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made to every man according as he had need.

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?

Give to every man that asks of you; and of him that takes away your goods ask them not again.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.

If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother:But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wants.

Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Therefore if your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it to me, and after make for you and for your son.For thus said the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

To the upright there rises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all things are clean to you.

And let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works:

And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

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

And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said to him, Yet lack you one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

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

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

And the second is like to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

On the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:

But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him: because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shall you lay on him usury.

And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.

And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said to him, Take care of him; and whatever you spend more, when I come again, I will repay you.

He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.But when you do alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand does:That your alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly.

He answers and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise.

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

The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.

Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete with it shall be measured to you again.

And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.

Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away.

I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.

He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.

But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him?

But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man has, and not according to that he has not.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

We love him, because he first loved us.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.

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

He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.

And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely you have received, freely give.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:And you shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.