Bible Verses About Liberality

Then shall ye king say to them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my father: take the inheritance of the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.

I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.

Then shall the righteous answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or a thirst, and gaue thee drinke?

And when sawe we thee a stranger, and tooke thee in vnto vs? or naked, and clothed thee?

Or when sawe we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee?

And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.

And there came a certaine poore widowe, and she threw in two mites, which make a quadrin.

Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.

For they all did cast in of their superfluitie: but she of her pouertie did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.

Then the people asked him, saying, What shall we doe then?

And he answered, and said vnto them, He that hath two coates, let him part with him that hath none: and hee that hath meate, let him doe likewise.

Sell that ye haue, and giue almes: make you bagges, which waxe not old, a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen, where no theefe commeth, neither mothe corrupteth.

For where your treasure is, there will your hearts be also.

Concerning the gathering for the Saintes, as I haue ordeined in the Churches of Galatia, so doe ye also.

Euery first day of the weeke, let euery one of you put aside by himselfe, and lay vp as God hath prospered him, that then there be no gatherings when I come.

And when I am come, whomsoeuer ye shall alowe by letters, them will I send to bring your liberalitie vnto Hierusalem.

We doe you also to wit, brethren, of the grace of God bestowed vpon the Churches of Macedonia,

Because in great triall of affliction their ioy abounded, and their most extreme pouertie abounded vnto their rich liberalitie.

For to their power (I beare record) yea, and beyonde their power, they were willing,

And praied vs with great instance that we woulde receiue the grace, and fellowship of the ministring which is toward the Saints.

And this they did, not as we looked for: but gaue their owne selues, first to the Lord, and after vnto vs by the will of God,

Therefore, as yee abound in euery thing, in faith and woorde, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your loue towardes vs, euen so see that yee abound in this grace also.

This say I not by commandement, but because of the diligence of others: therefore prooue I the naturalnesse of your loue.

For ye knowe the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, that hee being rich, for your sakes became poore, that yee through his pouertie might be made rich.