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66 Bible Verses about Offering That Pleases God
You know, God sees right into our hearts. He knows when we're giving our best. He's not looking for perfection, but He loves it when we give cheerfully and not grudgingly. Think about it: when you give a gift with a happy heart, it just feels different, right?
Your offering should come from a willing heart, given justly, according to what you have. As the Bible says, "Each one must give as he has decided in his heart" (2 Corinthians 9:7). It's not about how much, but about the heart behind it.
The Bible teaches us that God wants us to give joyfully and generously, just like He does. He gives abundantly, "without finding fault" (James 1:5). Think about the sunshine and the rain – He gives those to everyone, right? Just like in Matthew 5:45, He sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. That's true generosity.
So, when you give to God, think of it as a thank you for all He's given you. And don't forget about giving to others, too, following God's example. It's a way of acknowledging that everything we have ultimately belongs to Him.
When you give, trust in God's faithfulness and His promise to provide for all your needs. He's got you covered. More than the actual gift, He cares about the attitude behind it. He wants your offering to be obedient and freely given, according to His commandments, and accompanied by a merciful heart, full of the desire to glorify Him. God makes it clear that He's not pleased with offerings that are just going through the motions, you know, those traditional or ritualistic ones that lack a truly obedient and merciful heart, lacking the desire to glorify Him.
And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings. And God looked upon Abel and his gifts,
Give to the Lord the glory due His name; take gifts and offer them before Him, and worship the Lord in His holy courts.
And Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and was observing how the crowd was putting money into the treasury. And many rich people were putting in much.Then one poor widow came and put in two lepta, which equals a quadrans.And having summoned His disciples, He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting into the treasury.For they all put in out of their excess, but this woman, out of her destitution, put in everything she had, her whole livelihood."
Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
An ungodly man entertains evil desires all the day, but the righteous is unsparingly merciful and compassionate.
Whenever therefore you do charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by men. Assuredly I say to you, they receive their reward in full.
Do not refrain from doing good to the poor, whenever your hand may have power to help them.
Let each one give just as he decides in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure, pressed down and shaken and running over they shall give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it shall be measured back to you."
Honor the Lord with your just labors, and give Him the firstfruits of your righteousness,
For the end, A Psalm of David. May the Lord hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you.May He send you help from the sanctuary, and aid you out of Zion.May He remember all your sacrifices, and accept your whole burnt offerings. Pause.
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves do not dig through and steal.For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Jesus said to him, "If you desire to be perfect, go, sell your belongings and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."
And though I give away all my possessions to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound for every good work,
Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
But this I say: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Now concerning the collection which is for the saints, as I directed to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:On the first day of the week let each one of you put something aside, storing up whatever he may prosper, in order that there be no collections when I come.
The year is completed, and you have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out My blessing upon you, until you are satisfied.
But do not forget the doing of good and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
There are some who scatter their own, and make it more, and there are some also who gather, yet have less.
And if you will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, you shall offer it acceptable from yourselves.
in everything being made rich to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving through us to God.
Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your belongings, do not ask for them back.
And I have all things and abound. I have been made full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
"Take care not to be doing your charitable giving before men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have not a reward from your Father in heaven.Whenever therefore you do charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by men. Assuredly I say to you, they receive their reward in full.But when you do charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,so that your charitable giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will Himself reward you openly.
And it was so after some time that Cain brought a sacrifice to the Lord of the fruits of the earth.And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings. And God looked upon Abel and his gifts,but Cain and his sacrifices He regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.
Take of yourselves an offering for the Lord: everyone that engages in his heart shall bring the firstfruits to the Lord - gold, silver, brass,
And if you should offer a sacrifice, a vow of rejoicing to the Lord, you shall offer it so as to be accepted for you.
Each one according to his ability, according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which He has given you.
I will willingly sacrifice to You; I will give thanks to Your name, O Lord; for it is good.
For if You desired sacrifice, I would have given it; You will not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings.Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.
Honor the Lord with your just labors, and give Him the firstfruits of your righteousness,that your storehouses may be completely filled with grain, and that your presses may burst forth with wine.
But who am I, and what is my people, that we have been able to be thus forward in offering to You? For all things are Yours, and of Your own have we given You,
And looking up, He saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.And He said, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all.For all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood which she had."
Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your intelligent service.
Speak to the children of Israel, and take the firstfruits from all, who may be disposed in their heart to give; and you shall take My firstfruits.
you also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
And as he gave the command, Israel brought abundantly their firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and every fruit of the field. And the children of Israel and Judah brought tithes of everything abundantly.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exaltation, bringing their sheaves with them.
On the first day of the week let each one of you put something aside, storing up whatever he may prosper, in order that there be no collections when I come.
For if there is first a readiness, it is acceptable according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, by how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
God is the Lord, and He has shined upon us; celebrate the feast with thick branches, binding the victims even to the horns of the altar.
And whatever you may do, work it from your soul, as to the Lord and not to men,knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for what a man sows, this also he will reap.For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.And while we do good, let us not lose heart, for in due season we shall reap if we do not become weary.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; give thanks to Him, praise His name.
I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account?Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe him, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying concerning his gifts; and through it, although he died, he still speaks.
But now I am traveling to Jerusalem ministering to the saints.For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing,storing up for yourselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
What shall I render to the Lord for all the things in which He has rewarded me?I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all His people.
But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him?My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
that my glory may sing praise to You, and I may not be pierced with sorrow. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
Therefore through Him let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing to His name.
The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord shall deliver them.
If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?
shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not by compulsion, but rather willingly, not in fondness for dishonest gain, but rather eagerly;nor as being masters over the flock under you, but rather being examples to the flock.
He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker, but he that honors Him has pity upon the poor.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.