Thematic Bible: Scriptural rules for
Thematic Bible
Giving » Scriptural rules for » According to ability
Then the disciples, as everyman had ability, determined every individual of them to send a sum to be distributed among the brethren who dwelt in Judea:
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For if there is first a ready mind, a man is acceptable according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
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Giving » Scriptural rules for » Freely
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.
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Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
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give, and there shall be given unto you; good measure pressed down, and shook, and running over, shall they give into your lap. For with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured back to you again.
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Giving » Scriptural rules for » According to income
Give to him that asketh thee; and from him who wants to borrow of thee, turn not away.
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Giving » Scriptural rules for » Regularly, every week
On the first day of the week let every one of you set apart with himself, treasuring it up, whatsoever he may please to give, that when I come there may be then no gatherings.
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Giving » Scriptural rules for » Cheerfully
Let every man, as he hath purposed in heart, give, not with reluctance or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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Giving » Scriptural rules for » With simplicity
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.
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Giving » Scriptural rules for » Without ostentation
But when thou givest alms, let not thy right hand know what thy left is doing:
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