29 Bible Verses about Almsgiving

At the end of every three years thou shall bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within thy gates.

but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.

If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);read more.
if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He shall maintain his cause in judgment, for he shall never be moved. A righteous man shall be had in everlasting remembrance. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, trusting in LORD.read more.
His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, [even] until he looks over his adversaries. He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.

He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

and if thou draw out thy soul to a hungry man, and satisfy an afflicted soul, then thy light shall rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday.

Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.

Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens. When therefore thou do charity, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. But when thou do charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does,read more.
so that thy charity may be in secret. And thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee in the open.

For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in,

And on the morrow when departing, after taking out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatever thou might spend more, I will repay thee at my return.

But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you.

Sell things possessed by you, and give charity. Make for yourselves purses not becoming old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor moth corrupts.

But when thou make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,

And when he heard these things, Jesus said to him, Yet one thing is lacking from thee. Sell all things, as many as thou have, and distribute to the poor, and thou will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.

And having stood, Zacchaeus said to the Lord, Behold, half of the things possessed by me, Lord, I give to the poor. And if I defrauded any man of anything, I repay fourfold.

And a certain man, being lame from his mother's belly, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask charity from those who entered into the temple, who, having seen Peter and John intending to go into the temple, asked charity.

and they recognized him, that this was the man who sat for charity at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled of astonishment and amazement at that which happened to him.

Now at Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, being translated, is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charities that she did.

a devout man, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many charities for the people, and beseeching God always. He saw plainly in a vision about the ninth hour of the day, an agent of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius. And after gazing at him, and having become afraid, he said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thy charities have come up for a memorial before God.

And he says, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy charities are remembered before God.

Now after more years I came, going to make donations to my nation, and offerings,

Now concerning the collection for the sanctified, as I arranged for the congregations of Galatia, so also do ye. Upon the first day of the week let each of you set something aside near himself, storing up whatever he may prosper, so that when I come no collections may be made then. And when I arrive, whomever ye may approve by letters, I will send these men to bring your gift to Jerusalem.

And now also finish the doing, so that just as was the willingness of the intending, so also to finish from the having.

But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings. Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

only that we should remember the poor, which this same thing I also was eager to do.

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?