Bible Verses About Charity

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly , or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Let all your things be done with charity.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.