Bible Verses About Liberality

Nowe therefore performe to doe it also, that as there was a readinesse to will, euen so yee may performe it of that which yee haue.

For if there be first a willing minde, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:

That also their aboundance may bee for your lacke, that there may be equalitie:

As it is written, Hee that gathered much, had nothing ouer, and hee that gathered litle, had not the lesse.

This yet remember, that he which soweth sparingly, shall reape also sparingly, and hee that soweth liberally, shall reape also liberally.

As euery man wisheth in his heart, so let him giue, not grudgingly, or of necessitie: for God loueth a cheerefull giuer.

And God is able to make all grace to abound towarde you, that yee alwayes hauing all sufficiencie in all thinges, may abounde in euery good worke,

(As it is written, He hath sparsed abroad and hath giuen to the poore: his beneuolence remayneth for euer.

Also hee that findeth seede to the sower, will minister likewise bread for foode, and multiplie your seede, and increase the fruites of your beneuolence,)

That on all partes yee may bee made rich vnto all liberalitie, which causeth through vs thankesgiuing vnto God.

For the ministration of this seruice not onely supplieth the necessities of the Saintes, but also aboundantly causeth many to giue thankes to God,

(Which by the experiment of this ministration praise God for your voluntarie submission to the Gospell of Christ, and for your liberall distribution to them, and to all men)

Notwithstanding yee haue well done, that yee did communicate to mine affliction.

And yee Philippians knowe also that in the beginning of the Gospell, when I departed from Macedonia, no Church communicated with me, concerning the matter of giuing and receiuing, but yee onely.

For euen when I was in Thessalonica, yee sent once, and afterward againe for my necessitie,

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, and that they trust not in vncertaine riches, but in the liuing God, (which giueth vs aboundantly, all things to enioy)

That they doe good, and be riche in good woorkes, and readie to distribute, and comunicate,

Laying vp in store for themselues a good foundation against the time to come, that they may obteine eternall life.

What auaileth it, my brethren, though a man saith he hath faith, when he hath no workes? can that faith saue him?

For if a brother or a sister bee naked and destitute of daily foode,

And one of you say vnto them, Depart in peace: warme your selues, and fil your bellies, notwithstading ye giue them not those things which are needefull to the body, what helpeth it?

And whosoeuer hath this worlds good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from him, howe dwelleth the loue of God in him?

My litle children, let vs not loue in worde, neither in tongue onely, but in deede and in trueth.