Luke 11:41

Jesus says to give from the heart in mercy to the needy, and all will be clean. Genuine inward charity reflects a truly cleansed heart.

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• Luke 12:33Sell 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.
• Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Heb 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Luke 16:9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
• Acts 10:15A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
• Matt 6:1–4“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.
• Isa 58:7–11Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• 2 Cor 8:7–9But 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.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Dan 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Jas 2:14–16What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
• Ps 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Luke 18:22When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”
• Matt 5:42Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
• Deut 15:8–10but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
• 1 Jn 3:16–17By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• Matt 25:34–40Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• 2 Cor 8:12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
• Luke 19:8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
• 2 Cor 9:6–15Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Acts 9:36–39Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
• Luke 14:12–14He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
• Acts 10:31–32and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
• 1 Tim 4:4–5For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
• Acts 11:29As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
• Eph 4:28Let 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.
• Job 13:16–20This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
• Matt 26:11For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.
• Acts 24:17Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
• Rom 14:14–18I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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