Bible Verses About Giving: Rules for

"Be careful not to parade your acts of tzedakah in front of people in order to be seen by them! If you do, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

So, when you do tzedakah, don't announce it with trumpets to win people's praise, like the hypocrites in the synagogues and on the streets. Yes! I tell you, they have their reward already!

But you, when you do tzedakah, don't even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.

Then your tzedakah will be in secret; and your Father, who sees what you do in secret, will reward you.

to finish what you started, so that your eagerness in wanting to commence the project may be matched by your eagerness to complete it, as you contribute from what you have.

For if the eagerness to give is there, the acceptability of the gift will be measured by what you have, not by what you don’t have.

Here’s the point: he who plants sparingly also harvests sparingly.

Each should give according to what he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.