2 Corinthians 8:2
how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase their generous liberality.
Mark 12:42-44
But there came one poor widow and dropped in two farthings, equal in value to a halfpenny.
Luke 21:1-4
Looking up He saw the people throwing their gifts into the Treasury--the rich people.
Acts 2:45-46
They sold their lands and other property, and distributed the proceeds among all, according to every one's necessities.
Romans 12:8
The teacher must do the same in his teaching; and he who exhorts others, in his exhortation. He who gives should be liberal; he who is in authority should be energetic and alert; and he who succours the afflicted should do it cheerfully.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely possess all things.
2 Corinthians 9:11
May you be abundantly enriched so as to show all liberality, such as through our instrumentality brings thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:13
For, by the practical proof of it which you exhibit in this service, you cause God to be extolled for your fidelity to your professed adherence to the Good News of the Christ, and for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all who are in need,
1 Thessalonians 1:6
And you followed the pattern set you by us and by the Master, after you had received the Message amid severe persecution, and yet with the joy which the Holy Spirit gives,
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brethren, followed the example of the Churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judaea; seeing that you endured the same ill-treatment at the hands of your countrymen, as they did at the hands of the Jews.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
that none of you might be unnerved by your present trials: for you yourselves know that they are our appointed lot.
James 2:5
Listen, my dearly-loved brethren. Has not God chosen those whom the world regards as poor to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He has promised to those that love Him?
Revelation 2:9
Your sufferings I know, and your poverty--but you are rich--and the evil name given you by those who say that they themselves are Jews, and are not, but are Satan's synagogue.