Bible Verses About Liberality

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.

It is not that relief for others should cause trouble for you, but that there should be a kind of reciprocity:

at present your abundance can help those in need; so that when you are in need, their abundance can help you — thus there is reciprocity.

It is as the Tanakh says, “He who gathered much had nothing extra, and he who gathered little had nothing lacking.”

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.

Moreover, God has the power to provide you with every gracious gift in abundance, so that always in every way you will have all you need yourselves and be able to provide abundantly for every good cause —

as the Tanakh says, “He gave generously to the poor; his tzedakah lasts forever.”

He who provides both seed for the planter and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your tzedakah.

You will be enriched in every way, so that you can be generous in everything. And through us your generosity will cause people to thank God,

because rendering this holy service not only provides for the needs of God’s people, but it also overflows in the many thanks people will be giving to God.

In offering this service you prove to these people that you glorify God by actually doing what your acknowledgement of the Good News of the Messiah requires, namely, sharing generously with them and with everyone.

Nevertheless, it was good of you to share in my trouble.

And you Philippians yourselves know that in the early days of my work spreading the Good News, when I left Macedonia, not a single congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving — only you.

Indeed, in Thessalonica when I needed it, you sent me aid twice.

As for those who do have riches in this present world, charge them not to be proud and not to let their hopes rest on the uncertainties of riches but to rest their hopes on God, who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous and ready to share.

In this way they will treasure up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may lay hold of the real life.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no actions to prove it? Is such “faith” able to save him?

Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food,

and someone says to him, “Shalom! Keep warm and eat hearty!” without giving him what he needs, what good does it do?

If someone has worldly possessions and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how can he be loving God?

Children, let us love not with words and talk, but with actions and in reality!