Bible Verses About Liberality

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies.

Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.

A Song of the Ascents. Remember, Jehovah, for David, all his afflictions.

Who hath sworn to Jehovah. He hath vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

`If I enter into the tent of my house, If I go up on the couch of my bed,

If I give sleep to mine eyes, To mine eyelids--slumber,

Till I do find a place for Jehovah, Tabernacles for the Mighty One of Jacob.

Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

And filled are thy barns with plenty, And with new wine thy presses break forth.

There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.

A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, For thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.

Set it , I pray you, to your heart, from this day and onwards, from the twenty and fourth day of the ninth month , even from the day that the temple of Jehovah hath been founded, set it to your heart.

Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne--from this day I bless.'

Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

And I have pushed for you against the consumer, And He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, Nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;

whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you--they have their reward!

`But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth,

that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.

Jesus said to him, `If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'

And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;