22 Bible Verses about Altruism

If anyone begs from you, give to him, and when anyone wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

"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.

For when I was hungry, you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger, you invited me to your homes,

The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.'

But give your inmost life as charity, and you will immediately find everything clean.

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.

But when you give an entertainment, invite people who are poor, maimed, lame, or blind.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is one thing that you still lack. Sell all that you have, and divide the money among the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

But Zaccheus stopped and said to the Master, "See, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay him four times as much."

when a man who had been lame from his birth was carried by. He used to be placed every day at what was known as the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, to beg from the people on their way into the Temple, and when he saw Peter and John on the point of going into the Temple he asked them to give him something.

and recognized him as the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were perfectly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.

Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity.

He was a devout man, who feared God, as did all the members of his household. He was liberal in charities to the people, and always prayed to God. One afternoon, about three o'clock, he had a vision, and distinctly saw an angel of God come into his room and say to him, "Cornelius!" He stared at him in terror, and said, "What is it, sir?" "Your prayers and charities," the angel answered, "have gone up and been remembered before God.

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charities have been recalled to mind by God.

After an absence of several years, I had come to bring charitable donations for my nation, and to offer sacrifice.

About the collection for God's people, I want you to do as I told the churches of Galatia to do. On the first of every week each of you is to put aside and store up whatever he gains, so that money will not have to be collected after I come. When I come I will send whatever persons you authorize with credentials, to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

Now finish doing it, so that your readiness to undertake it may be equaled by the way you finish it up, as well as your means permit.

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.

The man who stole must not steal any more; he must work with his hands at honest toil instead, so as to have something to share with those who are in need.

Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous,

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?