What does the Bible say about volunteer work?

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• Acts 20:35

  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.'"

• Isaiah 58:10-11

  [10] and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday; [11] and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.

• Luke 6:38

  "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."

• Romans 12:6-8

  [6] Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; [7] or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching; [8] or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

• Colossians 3:23

  And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

• Matthew 7:12

  Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

• James 2:14-24

  [14] What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? [15] And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, [16] and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it? [17] Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. [18] Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. [19] You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. [20] But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? [21] Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? [22] You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected; [23] and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God. [24] You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

• Hebrews 13:15-16

  [15] Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. [16] But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

• Hebrews 13:1-3

  [1] Let brotherly love continue. [2] Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it. [3] Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

• Luke 6:31

  "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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