What does the Bible say about generosity?

Top passages, ranked by readers

Rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY) · Scripture: World English Bible

• Acts 20:35 7 votes

  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.’”

• Luke 6:38 6 votes

  “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

• Proverbs 11:24-25 5 votes

  There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

• Proverbs 19:17 4 votes

  He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

• Luke 21:1-4 3 votes

  He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

• Matthew 6:21 3 votes

  for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

• 2 Corinthians 9:7 3 votes

  Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

• 2 Corinthians 9:6 3 votes

  Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

• 1 Timothy 6:17-19 3 votes

  Charge those who are rich in this present age 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; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

• Matthew 10:42 2 votes

  Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”