2 Corinthians 8:2
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Deuteronomy 15:4
Except when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it:
Nehemiah 8:10-12
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet wine, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be you grieved; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made rich: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.
Isaiah 32:5-8
The foolish person shall be no more called noble, nor the miser said to be bountiful.
Mark 12:42-44
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
Luke 21:1-4
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
Acts 2:45-46
And sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all men, as every man had need.
Romans 12:8
Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it in simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
2 Corinthians 6:10
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 9:11
Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, who causes through us thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:13
While by the proof of this ministry they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
1 Thessalonians 1:6
And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit:
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for you yourselves know that we are appointed unto this.
James 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?
Revelation 2:9
I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.