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Bible Verses About charity

15 key scriptures

Discover 15 powerful Bible verses about charity. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential government & society topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: Acts 20:35
King James (KJV)I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

15 Key Scriptures

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. alms: or, righteousness of your: or, with your
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. that which: or, his deed
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly , or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

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