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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 brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.
Give to Jehovah the glory of His name; bring an offering and come before Him; worship Jehovah in the adornment of holiness.
And sitting down opposite the treasury, Jesus was watching how the crowd is thowing copper coins into the treasury. And many rich ones threw in much.And coming, one poor widow threw in two lepta (which is a kodrantes).And having called His disciples near, He said to them, Truly I say to you that this poor widow has thrown in more than all of those casting into the treasury.For all threw in out of that abounding to them, but she out of her poverty threw in all, as much as she had, her whole livelihood.
Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and remember there that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First, be reconciled to your brother, and then, coming, offer your gift.
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, do not trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
Each one as he purposes in his heart, not out of grief or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. Prov. 22:8
Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, they will give into your bosom. For the same measure which you measure, it will be measured back to you.
To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. May Jehovah answer you in the day of distress; the name of the God of Jacob set you on high.He sends your help from the sanctuary, and upholds you out of Zion.He will remember all your offerings and make fat your burnt sacrifice. Selah.
Do not treasure up for you treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves dig through and steal.But treasure up for you treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, 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 the things belonging to you and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me.
And if I give out all my possesssions, and if I give over my body that I be burned, but I do not have love, I am profited nothing.
And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, that they may be to Jehovah, to bring near an offering in righteousness to Jehovah.
For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make certain contribution to the poor of the saints in Jerusalem.
And God is able to make all grace to abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;
Now He that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
And this: the one sowing sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one sowing on hope of blessings will also reap of blessings.
And about the collection, the one for the saints, as I charged the assemblies of Galatia, so also you do.On the first of the sabbaths, let each one of you put by himself, storing up whatever he is prospered, that there not be collections then when I come.
Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now in this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of the heavens for you and pour out a blessing until there is no sufficiency.
But do not be forgetful of doing good and sharing, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.
There is one who scatters yet increases more, but a withholder of uprightness comes only to poverty.
And if you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it of your free will;
in everything you being enriched to all simplicity, which works out thanksgiving to God through us.
But I have all things and more than enough; I have been made full, receiving from Epaphroditus the things from you, a fragrance of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
Take care not to do your merciful deeds before men in order to be seen by them. But if not, you have no reward from your Father in Heaven.Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, do not trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.But you doing merciful deeds, do not let your left know what your right hand does,so that your merciful deeds may be in secret. And your Father, the One seeing in secret, Himself will repay you in the open.
And in the end of days, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Jehovah from the fruit of the ground.And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain burned greatly, and his face fell.
Take from among you an offering to Jehovah. Everyone willing of heart shall bring it, the offering of Jehovah: gold and silver and bronze,
And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it of your free will;
but each with his gift of his hand, accorcding to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you.
For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase,and your storerooms shall be filled with plenty, and your wine-vats shall burst with new wine.
yea, for who am I, and who my people, that we should be able to offer willingly in this way? For all is of You, and we have given to You out of Your hand;
And having looked up, He saw the rich ones putting their gifts into the treasury.And He also saw a certain poor widow putting two lepta there.And He said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow put in more than all.For all these out of their abundance put into the gifts of God, but she out of her poverty put in all the living which she had.
Therefore, brothers, I call on you through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take an offering for Me. From every man whose heart impels him, let them take My offering.
you also as living stones are being built a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
And as the word spread, the sons of Israel brought abundantly the firstfruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and the tithe of all; they brought very much.
Those who sow in tears shall reap with a ringing cry of joy.Walking he who walks and weeps, bearing a trail of seed, shall come again with a ringing cry of joy, bearing his sheaves.
On the first of the sabbaths, let each one of you put by himself, storing up whatever he is prospered, that there not be collections then when I come.
For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
Therefore, if you, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father, the One in Heaven give good things to those that ask Him?
Jehovah is God, and He gives light to us. Tie the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
And every thing, whatever you may do, work from the soul as to the Lord and not to men,knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap.For the one sowing to his own flesh will reap corruption of the flesh. But the one sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life of the Spirit.But let us not be wearied in doing good; for in its own time we shall reap, not growing faint-hearted.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, into His courts with praise; be thankful to Him; bless His name.
this is not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to send out free the ones being oppressed, and that you pull off every yoke?Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor ones to your house? When will you see the naked ones and cover him, and you will not hide yourself from your flesh?
By faith Abel offered a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he obtained witness to be righteous, God testifying over his gifts; and through it, having died, he yet speaks.
But now I am going to Jerusalem, doing service to the saints.For Macedonia and Achaia thought it good to make certain contribution to the poor of the saints in Jerusalem.
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, to be generous ones,treasuring away for themselves a good foundation for the coming age, that they may lay hold on everlasting life.
What shall I return to Jehovah for all His benefits to me?I will lift up the cup of salvation, and I will call on the name of Jehovah.I will pay my vows to Jehovah; I pray in the presence of all His people.
Whoever has the means of life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from 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.
So my glory shall praise You, and not be quiet; O Jehovah, my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
Therefore through Him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God always, this is, the fruit of the lips, confessing to His name.
Jehovah is near to the broken of heart; and He saves the crushed of spirit.Many are the evils of the righteous one, but Jehovah plucks him out of them all,
If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we shall reap of your fleshly things?
Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly, nor eagerly for base gain, but readily;nor as exercising lordship over the allotment given to you, but becoming examples of the flock.
One oppressing the poor one curses his Maker, but one honoring Him favors the needy one.
every good gift,and every perfect gift,is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is not any change or shadow of turning.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.