28 Bible Verses about Giving To The Poor

And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it.

Then looking stedfastly on him, and being terrified, he said, What means this, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thy alms are remembered before God.

But give what is within them for alms; and, lo! all will be pure unto you.

For some supposed, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy what we need for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

and should one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warm, be replenished with food: yet if ye give them not the necessaries for their body; what doth it avail?

Therefore when thou givest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Verily I say unto you, They receive their reward.

or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; he that distributes, let him do it with simplicity; he that presideth, with diligence; he that is employed in acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Jesus said to him, If thou art desirous to be perfect, go, sell all thy substance, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.

Then Jesus looking upon him, loved him, and said to him, In one thing thou art defective: go, sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor; and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up thy cross, and follow me.

Sell all your possessions, and give in charity; make yourselves purses that wax not old, a treasure never failing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor doth the moth destroy.

Then Jesus hearing this, said to him, Yet one thing thou lackest: sell all whatsoever thou hast, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

communicating to the wants of the saints; prompt to hospitality.

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want.

But when thou givest alms, let not thy right hand know what thy left is doing:

that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will himself reward thee openly.

Then said Peter, I have neither silver nor gold; but what I have, that I give thee: By the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarean, arise, and walk!

Then Zaccheus standing up, said unto the Lord, Behold, the half of my goods, Lord, I give unto the poor; and if I have got any thing from any man, by laying false informations, I am ready to restore fourfold.

a man of piety, and who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints that are at Jerusalem.

For unto their power, I bear them witness, and above their power, they were voluntarily ready [to give]:

with much entreaty praying us that we would receive the gift, and [undertake] the communication of the contribution for the saints.

But know also, Philippians, that at my first preaching the gospel, when I went from Macedonia, no church communicated to me in the way of giving and receiving but ye alone.

Now after many years absence I was returned bringing alms to my countrymen, and oblations [to the temple].

For this ointment might have been sold for a considerable sum, and given to the poor.

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they bitterly murmured against her.

Wherefore was not this aromatic ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?