12 Bible Verses about Generosity
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you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.
The generous man will be prosperous,
And he who waters will himself be watered.
Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
He has given freely to the poor,
His righteousness endures forever;
His horn will be exalted in honor.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
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Generosity » Liberality in the early church
And in the proportion that any of
For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales and lay them at the apostles' feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.
that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the
for even in
Generosity » Offerings for the rebuilding of the temple
According to their ability they gave
Zaccheus stopped and said to
All those about them
and I
Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The
Generosity » David's gifts for the temple
"Moreover, in my delight in the house of my God, the treasure I have of gold and silver, I give to the house of my God, over and above all that I have already provided for the holy temple, namely, 3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings;
Generosity » Gifts for the repairing of God's house
All the officers and all the people rejoiced and brought in their levies and
Generosity » Gifts of israel for the tabernacle
Then all
Generosity » Offerings at the dedication
When they brought their offering before the Lord, six
Generosity » The poor widow's offering
And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury. And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins. And He said, "Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all of them; read more.
for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on."
Generosity » Over-plus of gifts
and they said to
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