Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Alms » Commandments and practices concerning
"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get! But when you give to charity, your own left hand must not know what your right hand is doing, read more.
so that your charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
so that your charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go! Sell your property and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come back and be a follower of mine."
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But give your inmost life as charity, and you will immediately find everything clean.
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Sell what belongs to you, and give away the money! Get yourselves purses that will never wear out, inexhaustible riches in heaven, where thieves cannot get near nor moths destroy.
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If anyone begs from you, give to him, and when anyone wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.
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the speaker, in his exhortation, the giver of charity, with generosity, the office-holder, with devotion, the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
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So I have thought it necessary to ask these brothers to go on to you ahead of me, to arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so as to have it ready, like an expression of your good will, not of your avarice. Remember this: The man who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the man who sows generously will reap generously. Everyone must give what he has made up his mind to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion; God loves a man who is glad to give.
Only, we were to remember the poor, and that I have taken pains to do.
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Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous,
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But do not forget to be helpful and generous, for that is the kind of sacrifice that pleases God.
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But if someone who is rich sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can he have any love for God in his heart?
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the Blessed » The bountiful
But when you give an entertainment, invite people who are poor, maimed, lame, or blind. Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."
Charity » The reward for being charitable
Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go! Sell your property and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come back and be a follower of mine."
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But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.
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And he said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for then they will invite you in return and you will be repaid. But when you give an entertainment, invite people who are poor, maimed, lame, or blind. Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."
Feast of sabbatical year » Release of, not to hinder the exercise of benevolence
The poor » They who in faith believe » Are blessed
I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "
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The poor » Give to » Not grudgingly
Everyone must give what he has made up his mind to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion; God loves a man who is glad to give.
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