14 Bible Verses about Giving Without Expecting Return
Most Relevant Verses
And if you lend [to those] from whom you expect to receive [back], what kind of credit is [that] to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may get back an equal [amount]!
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what kind of credit is [that] to you? Even the sinners do the same!
Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes away your things, do not ask for [them back].
And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you [in return], and repayment come to you.
And yet he did not leave himself without witness [by] doing good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying [you] with food and your hearts with gladness."
and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous."
But Peter said, "Silver and gold {I do not possess}, but what I have, this I give to you--in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!"
and not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and [then] to us, by the will of God.
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
For this [reason] you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come].
Therefore [in] all [things], whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets.