Liberality

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Ecclesiastes 11:2 OT

  Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

• Isaiah 58:10 OT

  and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

• Luke 3:11 NT

  He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

• 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.

• 1 Corinthians 16:1 NT

  Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

• 1 Timothy 6:17 NT

  Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

• 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;

• Numbers 7:2 OT

  the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were counted;

• Ruth 2:16 OT

  Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

• 2 Samuel 9:7 OT

  David said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

• 2 Samuel 9:10 OT

  Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty…

• 2 Samuel 17:28 OT

  brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

• 2 Samuel 24:22 OT

  Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

• 2 Kings 4:8 OT

  One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

• 2 Kings 4:10 OT

  Please let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”

• 2 Chronicles 24:10 OT

  All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.

• 2 Chronicles 24:11 OT

  Whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its…

• Nehemiah 7:70 OT

  Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.

• Nehemiah 7:71 OT

  Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.

• Nehemiah 7:72 OT

  That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, plus two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.

• Job 29:15 OT

  I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

• Job 29:16 OT

  I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

• Jeremiah 40:4 OT

  Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all…

• Jeremiah 40:5 OT

  Now while he had not yet gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it…