Matthew 5:42

Give to the one who asks and do not turn away the would-be borrower. It calls for open-handed generosity toward those in need.

Cross-references · 24

• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Heb 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Luke 6:30–36Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
• Ps 112:5–9It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
• 1 Tim 6:17–19Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Ps 37:21The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.
• 1 Jn 3:16–18By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• Deut 15:7–14If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
• Rom 12:20Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
• 2 Cor 9:6–15Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Ps 37:25–26I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
• Prov 3:27–28Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
• Matt 25:35–40for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
• Jas 2:15–16And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
• Eccl 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
• 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.
• Job 31:16–20“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Isa 58:6–12“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• 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 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.
• Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
• 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.
• Luke 11:41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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