Liberality
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Liberality’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 193–216 of 255 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
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Matthew 5:42 NT
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
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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.
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However you did well that you shared in my affliction. You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but…
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because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
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“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…
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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.
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You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you.
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Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.
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On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.
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Exodus 25:2 OT
“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
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For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
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But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
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you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us. For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to…
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for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
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Acts 20:35 NT
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
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One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
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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?
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What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t…
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Psalms 41:1 OT
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
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He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
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The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
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Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.