Bible Verses About Liberality

For the leader. A psalm of David: How blessed are those who care for the poor! When calamity comes, ADONAI will save them.

ADONAI will preserve them, keep them alive, and make them happy in the land. You will not hand them over to the whims of their enemies.

ADONAI sustains them on their sickbed; when they lie ill, you make them recover.

A song of ascents: ADONAI, remember in David's favor all the hardships he endured,

how he swore to ADONAI, vowed to the Mighty One of Ya'akov,

"I will not enter the house where I live or get into my bed,

I will not allow myself to sleep or even close my eyes,

until I find a place for ADONAI, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Ya'akov."

Honor ADONAI with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your income.

Then your granaries will be filled and your vats overflow with new wine.

Some give freely and still get richer, while others are stingy but grow still poorer.

The person who blesses others will prosper; he who satisfies others will be satisfied himself.

Send your resources out over the seas; eventually you will reap a return.

Divide your merchandise into seven or eight shares, since you don't know what disasters may come on the earth.

'So please keep this in mind, from this day on, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of ADONAI's temple was laid, consider this:

there's no longer any seed in the barn, is there? and the vine, fig tree, pomegranate tree and olive tree have produced nothing yet, right? However, from this day on, I will bless you.'"

Bring the whole tenth into the storehouse, so that there will be food in my house, and put me to the test," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot. "See if I won't open for you the floodgates of heaven and pour out for you a blessing far beyond your needs.

For your sakes I will forbid the devourer to destroy the yield from your soil; and your vine will not lose its fruit before harvest-time," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

"All nations will call you happy, for you will be a land of delights," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

"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.

Yeshua said to him, "If you are serious about reaching the goal, go and sell your possessions, give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!"

But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was wealthy.