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Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• John 9:8 NT

  The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

• Acts 3:2 NT

  A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

• Leviticus 25:35 OT

  “ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

• Deuteronomy 14:28 OT

  At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 14:29 OT

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless…

• Deuteronomy 15:7-11 OT

  If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; but you shall surely open your hand to him,…

• Isaiah 58:6 OT

  “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

• Isaiah 58:7 OT

  Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

• Matthew 5:42 NT

  Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

• Matthew 6:1-4 NT

  “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the…

• Matthew 19:21 NT

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

• Luke 11:41 NT

  But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

• Luke 12:33 NT

  Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

• Romans 12:8 NT

  or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

• 2 Corinthians 9:5-7 NT

  I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.…

• Galatians 2:10 NT

  They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

• 1 Timothy 6:18 NT

  that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

• Hebrews 13:16 NT

  But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

• 1 John 3:17 NT

  But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

• Luke 19:8 NT

  Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

• Acts 9:36 NT

  Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

• Acts 10:2 NT

  a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

• Acts 2:44 NT

  All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

• Acts 2:45 NT

  They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.