BENEFICENCE

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• Leviticus 25:35

  “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

• Leviticus 25:36

  Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

• Leviticus 25:37

  You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

• Leviticus 25:38

  I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

• Leviticus 25:39

  “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

• Leviticus 25:40

  As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

• Leviticus 25:41

  then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

• Leviticus 25:42

  For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

• Leviticus 25:43

  You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

• Deuteronomy 15:7

  If 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;

• Deuteronomy 15:8

  but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

• Deuteronomy 15:9

  Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

• Deuteronomy 15:10

  You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

• Deuteronomy 15:11

  For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

• Deuteronomy 15:12

  If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

• Deuteronomy 15:13

  When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.

• Deuteronomy 15:14

  You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

• Deuteronomy 15:15

  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

• Deuteronomy 15:16

  It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

• Deuteronomy 15:17

  then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

• Deuteronomy 15:18

  It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

• Judges 19:16

  Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

• Judges 19:17

  He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”

• Judges 19:18

  He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

• Judges 19:19

  Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”

• Judges 19:20

  The old man said, “Peace be to you; how ever let me supply all your needs. Just don’t sleep in the street.”

• Judges 19:21

  So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

• Nehemiah 5:8

  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

• Nehemiah 5:9

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

• Nehemiah 5:10

  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

• Nehemiah 5:11

  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

• Nehemiah 5:12

  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

• Nehemiah 8:11

  So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”

• Job 29:11

  For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

• Job 29:12

  Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

• Job 29:13

  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

• Job 29:14

  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

• Job 29:15

  I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

• Job 29:16

  I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.

• Job 29:17

  I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

• Job 31:16

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

• Job 31:17

  or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

• Job 31:18

  (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);

• Job 31:19

  if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

• Job 31:20

  if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

• Job 31:21

  if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

• Job 31:22

  then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

• Job 31:23

  For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

• Psalms 41:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

• Psalms 112:9

  He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

• Proverbs 3:27

  Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

• Proverbs 3:28

  Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

• Proverbs 11:25

  The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

• Proverbs 22:9

  He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

• Proverbs 25:21

  If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

• Proverbs 25:22

  for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

• Proverbs 28:27

  One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

• Isaiah 21:14

  They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

• Isaiah 58:6

  “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?

• Isaiah 58:7

  Isn’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?

• Isaiah 58:10

  and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

• Isaiah 58:11

  and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

• Ezekiel 18:5

  “But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

• Ezekiel 18:7

  and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

• Ezekiel 18:8

  he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

• Ezekiel 18:9

  has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Matthew 5:42

  Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

• Matthew 19:21

  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

• Matthew 25:35

  for 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.

• Matthew 25:36

  I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:37

  “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

• Matthew 25:38

  When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:39

  When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

• Matthew 25:40

  “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

• Matthew 25:41

  Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

• Matthew 25:42

  for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

• Matthew 25:43

  I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

• Matthew 25:44

  “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

• Matthew 25:45

  “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

• Mark 9:41

  For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

• Mark 10:21

  Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

• Luke 3:11

  He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

• Luke 10:33

  But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

• Luke 10:34

  came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

• Luke 10:35

  On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

• Luke 11:41

  But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

• Luke 19:8

  Zacchaeus 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.”

• Acts 2:44

  All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

• Acts 2:45

  They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

• Acts 2:46

  Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

• Acts 4:32

  The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

• Acts 4:33

  With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

• Acts 4:34

  For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

• Acts 4:35

  and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

• Acts 4:36

  Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

• Acts 4:37

  having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

• Acts 6:1

  Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

• Acts 6:2

  The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

• Acts 6:3

  Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

• Acts 6:4

  But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

• Acts 10:2

  a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

• Acts 10:4

  He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

• Acts 11:29

  As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

• Acts 11:30

  which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

• Romans 15:25

  But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

• Romans 15:26

  For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

• Romans 15:27

  Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 16:1

  Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

• 1 Corinthians 16:2

  On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

• 1 Corinthians 16:3

  When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

• 2 Corinthians 8:1

  Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

• 2 Corinthians 8:2

  how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

• 2 Corinthians 8:3

  For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

• 2 Corinthians 8:4

  begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

• 2 Corinthians 8:5

  This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

• 2 Corinthians 8:6

  So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:7

  But 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.

• 2 Corinthians 8:8

  I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

• 2 Corinthians 8:9

  For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

• 2 Corinthians 8:10

  I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

• 2 Corinthians 8:11

  But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

• 2 Corinthians 8:12

  For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

• 2 Corinthians 8:13

  For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

• 2 Corinthians 8:14

  but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

• 2 Corinthians 8:15

  As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

• 2 Corinthians 8:24

  Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

• 2 Corinthians 9:1

  It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

• 2 Corinthians 9:2

  for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

• 2 Corinthians 9:3

  But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

• 2 Corinthians 9:4

  so that I won’t by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

• 2 Corinthians 9:5

  I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

• 2 Corinthians 9:6

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

• 2 Corinthians 9:7

  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 9:8

  And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

• 2 Corinthians 9:9

  As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

• 2 Corinthians 9:10

  Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

• 2 Corinthians 9:11

  you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which produces through us thanksgiving to God.

• 2 Corinthians 9:12

  For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

• 2 Corinthians 9:13

  seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

• 2 Corinthians 9:14

  while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

• 2 Corinthians 9:15

  Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

• Galatians 2:10

  They only asked us to remember the poor — which very thing I was also zealous to do.

• Philippians 4:10

  But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

• Philippians 4:11

  Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

• Philippians 4:12

  I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

• Philippians 4:13

  I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

• Philippians 4:14

  However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

• Philippians 4:15

  You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

• Philippians 4:16

  For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

• Philippians 4:17

  Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

• Philippians 4:18

  But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

• 1 Timothy 5:8

  But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

• 1 Timothy 5:16

  If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

• 1 Timothy 6:18

  that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

• 2 Timothy 1:16

  May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

• 2 Timothy 1:17

  but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

• 2 Timothy 1:18

  (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

• Hebrews 6:10

  For 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.

• Hebrews 13:16

  But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

• James 2:15

  And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

• James 2:16

  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?

• 1 John 3:17

  But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?