14 Bible Verses about Giving Without Expecting Return

"And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so as to get as much back.

"But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil.

"Do you therefore be merciful, As your Father is merciful.

"And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even sinners do the same.

Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away.

Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

and yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness."

"Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

"I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have, this I am going to give to you; in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, walk!"

And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

"Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming.

"Therefore everything that you would have men do to you, do you also the same to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.

"But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.