14 Bible Verses about Giving Without Expecting Return

And if ye lend to them from whom ye hope to receive, what thanks have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much in return.

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

And if ye do good to them who do good to you, what thanks have ye? for sinners also do even the same.

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again.

Then said he also to him that invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbors; lest they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

And thou shalt be blessed: for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have I give thee: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not thou away.

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.

Therefore all things whatever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: