Bible Verses about “charity”

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”

“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”

“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”

“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”

“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”

“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”

“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”

“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.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”

“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”

“"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.”

“"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."”

“Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.”

“so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

“But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

“Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.”

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

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

“You shall surely give him, 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.”

“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;”

“but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.”

“Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.”

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

“He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.”

“He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,”

“for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."”

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