For ye shall have poor folk always with you: but me shall ye not have always.
Luke 11:41 - William Tyndale New Testament Nevertheless ye give of that ye have, and behold all is clean to you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But [dedicate your inner self and] give as donations to the poor of those things which are within [of inward righteousness] and behold, everything is purified and clean for you. American Standard Version (1901) But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you. Common English Bible Therefore, give to those in need from the core of who you are and you will be clean all over. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, give what is above as alms, and behold, all things are clean for you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But yet that which remaineth, give alms; and behold, all things are clean unto you. |
For ye shall have poor folk always with you: but me shall ye not have always.
Give to him that asketh: and from him that would borrow turn not away.
because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly: and goeth out into the draught that purgeth out all meats.
Sell that ye have, and give alms. And make you bags, which wax not old, and treasure that faileth not in heaven, where no thief cometh, neither moth corrupteth.
And I say also unto you: make you friends of the wicked mammon, that when ye shall have need they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
When Iesus heard that, he said unto him: Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that thou hast, and distribute it unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, and follow me.
¶ Zache stood forth and said unto the Lord: Behold Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have done any man wrong, I will restore him four fold.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time: What God hath cleansed that make thou not common.
Then the disciples every man according to his ability, purposed to send succour unto the brethren which dwelt in jewry,
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
let him that stole steal no more, but let him rather labour with his hands some good thing, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.
Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled.
To do good, and to distribute forget not, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
For God is not unrighteous that he should forget your work, and labour that proceedeth of love, which love shewed in his name, which have ministered unto the saints, and yet minister.
Pure devotion and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the fatherless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.