Bible Verses About Beneficence

On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.

Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath been given in the churches of Macedonia.

That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.

For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their power, they were willing:

With much entreaty begging of us the grace and communication of the ministry that is done toward the saints.

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

Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that, as he had begun, so also he would finish among you this same grace.

That as in all things you abound in faith and word and knowledge and all carefulness, moreover also in your charity towards us: so in this grace also you may abound.

I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others, approving also the good disposition of your charity.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who have begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago.

Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.

For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.

For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but by an equality.

In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may supply your want: that there may be an equality,

As it is written: He that had much had nothing over; and he that had little had no want.

For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you.

For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your emulation hath provoked very many.

Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of concerning you be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said) you may be ready:

Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter.

Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.

Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings.

Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work,