29 Bible Verses about Charity

And this, He sowing sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he sowing in praises shall reap also in praises. Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

To the overseer: chanting of David. Happy he attending to the weak one: in the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.

There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want The soul of blessing shall be made fat: also he watering, shall himself drink to the full. He withholding grain, the people shall curse him: and blessing upon the head of him selling.

He pitying the poor lends to Jehovah, and he will recompense to him his act.

He giving to the poor wants not: and he hiding his eyes increased curses.

Then let us no more judge one another: but rather judge ye this, not to put a stumble or offence to thy brother.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging: for in what thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou judging doest the same.

Who art thou judging another's servant? to his own lord he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand: for God is powerful to make him stand.

Therefore judge ye nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who also, will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts: and then shall praise be to each from God.

Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

When the needy shall be among thee, from one of thy brethren, in one of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, and thou shalt not shut thy hand from thy needy brother. For opening, thou shalt open thy hand to him, and lending, thou shalt lend him a sufficiency for his want which he shall want Watch to thyself lest a word shall be with thy heart, of Belial, saying. The seventh year, the year of remission is drawing near; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother and thou wilt not give to him; and he call against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee. read more.
Giving, thou shalt give to him, and thy heart shall not be evil in thy giving to him; for because of this word Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the sending forth of thy hand. For the needy shall not cease from the midst of thy land: for this I command thee, saying, Opening, thou shalt open thy hand to thy brother, to thy afflicted and to thy needy in thy land.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil.

And thou shalt give out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the humble soul; and thy light rising in darkness,, and thy thick darkness as the noon. And Jehovah led thee continually, and he satisfied thy soul in dry places, and he will make thy bones strong: and thou wed as a watered garden, and as a spring of water which its waters shall not deceive.

And he also said to him having called him, When thou makest a breakfast or supper, call not thy friends, nor thy rich neighbors, nor thy brethren; lest they call thee in return, and a giving back be to thee. But when thou makest an entertainment, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And happy shalt thou be; for they have not to give back to thee: for it shall be given back to thee at the rising up of the just.

Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not?

More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves.

The good eye it shall be blessed, for he gave from his bread to the poor.

A good man, being merciful and lending: he will hold up his words in judgment;

Who shall find a woman of virtue? for her price is far above pearls. The heart of her husband trusted in her, and he shall not want spoil. She rewarded him good and not evil all the days of her life. read more.
She sought wool and flax, and she will work in delight with her hands. She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread. She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls. She purposed a field, and he will take it: from the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard. She girded her loins with strength, and she will strengthen her arms. She tasted that her traffic is good: her light will not go out by night She sent forth her hands upon the spindle, and her hands take hold of the whirl. She spread forth her hands to the poor, and sent forth her hands to the needy.

And having looked np, he saw the rich casting their gifts into the royal treasury. And he also saw a certain poor widow casting there two small coins. And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all: read more.
For all they, of that abounding to them, have cast in to the gifts of God: and she from her want cast in all the living which she had.

And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?

Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness: read more.
(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.) And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love. For these being to you, and abounding, they establish you not without effort, neither unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

He giving to the poor wants not: and he hiding his eyes increased curses.

And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil; Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth; read more.
Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all. ' Love never falters: but whether gifts of prophecies, they shall be left unemployed; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be left unemployed. For we know by parts, and we prophesy by parts. And when the perfected come, then shall that by parts be left unemployed. When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child. For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known. And now remains faith, hope, love, these three; and the greater of these, love.

And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers. More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins. Being hospitable to one another without murmurings.

And this, He sowing sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he sowing in praises shall reap also in praises. Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens. When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.

And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion.

(And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith:

For as in one body we have many members, and all members have not the same action: So we, the many, are one body in Christ, and the members for one another. And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith; read more.
Whether service, in service: whether he teaching, in instruction; Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.

But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does: That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil; Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth; read more.
Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all. '

Pursue love, and be emulous of spiritual things, and rather that ye might prophesy.

And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion.

I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.

When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.