62 Bible Verses about Giving, Of Possessions

He who gives to the poor will not lack. But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back.

This is what you must do whenever there are poor Israelites in one of your cities in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you. Be generous to these poor people. Freely lend them as much as they need. Never be hardhearted and stingy with them.

Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house? When you see the naked, should you cover him and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Jesus then replied: If you wish to be complete, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor. You will have wealth in heaven. Then follow me!

Jesus lovingly looked at him and said: You lack one thing. Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.

When Jesus heard it he said to him, You lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.

Sell your possessions and give to charity. Make yourselves purses that do not get old, a treasure in heaven where moth and rest cannot corrupt and thieves cannot steal.

Contribute to the needs of the holy ones and practice hospitality.

They wanted us to remember the poor. I was eager (zealous) to do this very thing.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. For the scripture said: You must not muzzle the bull while he is threshing. The workman is worthy of his wages.

Give the silver to Aaron and his sons. It will buy back those Israelites who outnumber the Levites.

Any contribution over and above the holy offerings that the Israelites bring to the priest belongs to the priest.

Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal. From that time on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house. She said to her husband: I know that this man who comes here often is a holy man. Let us build a small room on the roof, and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it. He can stay there when he visits us.

Take no extra clothes, not even two coats, no extra shoes or walking stick for the laborer is worthy of his food.

But let him that is orally taught in the word share all good things.

You also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I departed from Macedonia, no other congregation shared their money with me. Only you shared with me. While I was in Thessalonica you provided for my needs twice. Not that I seek the gift but I seek the fruit that adds to your account.read more.
I have all things, and prosper: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you. It is an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.

Finish paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing. Then you shall give it to the Levite, the stranger, and the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

Boaz asked his servant who was in authority over the cutters: Whose young woman is this? The servant said: It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. She said to me: Let me come into the grain-field and pick up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.read more.
Then Boaz said to Ruth: Listen to me, my daughter; do not go to pick up the grain in another field. Do not leave here, but stay with my servant girls. Keep your eyes on the field the men are harvesting and follow with the girls. I told the men not to touch you. When you are thirsty, drink from the water jars the men keep filled. Then she bowed down on her face to the earth, and said to him: Why have I found favor in your eyes? For you give me attention and I am a foreigner. Boaz answered: I have heard about everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband. You went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you. May Jehovah reward you for what you have done. May you have a full reward from Jehovah the God of Israel, to whom you have come for protection!

Honor widows that are truly widows. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show righteousness towards their own family, and to repay their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Let each man do according as he has purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

Jehovah again spoke to Moses: When you take a census of the people of Israel, each man is to pay me a price for his life. This to insure that no disaster will come on him while the census is being taken. Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.read more.
Every man being counted in the census who is twenty years old or older is to pay me this amount. The rich man is not to pay more. The poor man is not to pay less, when they pay this amount for their lives. Collect this money from the people of Israel and spend it for the upkeep of the tent of meeting. This tax will be the payment for their lives. I will remember to protect them.

When the days needed to make her clean are over, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a mourning dove as an offering for sin. She should bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer them in Jehovah's presence to pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her. Then she will be clean from her flow of blood. These are the instructions for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.'

At the end of every third year bring the tithe of all your crops and store it in your towns.

I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.' A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. Test me, said Jehovah of Hosts, and see if I will open the windows of heaven and pour out showers of blessing upon you until there is no more want.

Caesar's, they said. Then he said: Pay Caesar the things that are Caesar's. Pay God the things that are God's.

Jesus said: Pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. They greatly marveled at him.

He said to them: Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.

That is why you pay taxes. They are God's ministers continually serving this very purpose. Render therefore to all their due. Provide tribute to whom tribute is due. Give custom to whom custom is owed. Render fear to whom fear is owed and offer honor to whom honor is deserved.

Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything. This is because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already.

Jacob made a vow. He said: If God will be with me and will watch over me on my trip and give me food to eat and clothes to wear, and if I return safely to my father's home, then Jehovah will be my God. This stone I placed as a marker will be the house of God. I will certainly give you a tenth of everything you give me.

He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground that You, O Jehovah have given me. Set it down before Jehovah your God, and worship before Jehovah your God.'

I asked him for this child. He gave me what I asked of him. So I am dedicating (giving) (granting) him to Jehovah. As long as he lives, he will belong to Jehovah. Then they worshiped Jehovah there.

Whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

Then the men who were mentioned by name took charge of the prisoners and gave clothes from the loot to all the prisoners who were naked. They provided clothes for them, gave them sandals, gave them something to eat and drink, and let them bathe. They put everyone who was exhausted on donkeys and brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, near their own people. Then they returned to Samaria.

Who among you, who would give his son a stone when he asks him for bread? Who will give him a serpent when he asks for a fish? Even though you are a sinner, you know how to give good gifts to your children. Think how much more your Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask him!

Then a Samaritan arrived where he was. He was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him. The next day he paid the host two shillings. He said take care of him and if you spend more I will repay you when I return.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. You received without paying, now give without being paid.

Tell the Israelites to choose something to give me as a special contribution. You must accept whatever contribution each person freely gives.

Make an offering to Jehovah. Everyone who wishes to do so is to bring an offering of gold, silver, or copper.

Jehoash said to the priests: All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of Jehovah, the amount fixed for every man's payment, and all the money given by any man freely by motivation of his heart,

Then the heads of the clans, the officials of the tribes, the commanders of the army, and the administrators of the royal property volunteered to give.

All the officials and all the people were filled with joy. They brought money and dropped it into the box until it was full.

Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand bulls from his own flocks and herds for the people to offer as sacrifices. Josiah's officials also voluntarily gave some of their animals to the people, the priests, and the Levites as sacrifices. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, who were the officials in charge of the Temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred sheep and lambs and three hundred bulls to sacrifice during the Passover celebration. Conaniah and his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the leaders of the Levites, gave the Levites five thousand sheep and goats and five hundred bulls as Passover sacrifices.

I said to them: You are holy to Jehovah and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are an offering freely given to Jehovah, the God of your fathers.

But now complete the doing. There was the eager will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.

Be careful! Do not display your righteousness (good works) before men to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward with your heavenly Father. Do not loudly announce it when you give to the poor. The hypocrites do this in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do this to be praised by men. Believe me, they have already been paid in full. When you give gifts, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.read more.
Your giving will be in secret and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

On one day of the week let every one of you set something aside, as God has prospered you, that there be no contributions collected when I come. (Greek: heis, number one)

to Moses. They said: The people are bringing more than is needed for the work Jehovah commanded to be done.

He brought a silver plate that weighed three and one fourth pounds and a silver bowl that weighed one and three quarter pounds using the standard weight of the holy place. Each dish was filled with flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.

Over and above all this that I have provided, I have given silver and gold from my personal property because of my love for God's Temple. I have given one hundred and fifteen tons of the finest gold and two hundred and sixty five tons of pure silver for decorating the walls of the Temple

Give and it shall be given to you. You will receive a good measure. It will be pressed down, shaken together, running over and they will give it to you. For with the measure that you measure out it will be measured to you also.

Out of severe affliction they have an abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounds in the riches of their generosity. For according to their ability, I bear witness, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord.

They should do good works and be rich in good works, that they are ready to distribute, willing to communicate.

However, Jehovah said to my father David: Since you had your heart set on building a Temple for my name, your intentions were good.

He sat down near the collection boxes and observed how the crowd dropped money into the boxes. Many that were rich dropped in much. A poor widow came along and dropped in two mites. He told his disciples: Truly I tell you this poor widow gave more then all the others who gave to the collection box.read more.
They all gave out of their surplus. She gave out of her poverty. She gave all that she owned, all her living.

He saw rich men putting their gifts into the treasury. Then he saw a poor widow putting in two small coins. I tell you a truth, he said: This poor widow gave more than all of them.read more.
They all gave out of their surplus but she gave out of her poverty. She gave all that she had for living expenses.

The one to be cleansed must take one of the mourning doves or pigeons, the one he can afford,

The person who is too poor to pay the required amount must stand in front of the priest. The priest will determine the amount based on what the person can afford.

Every man shall give, as he is able; according to the blessing Jehovah your God has given you.

Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand drachmas of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.