Generosity (Bible Verses)

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2 Corinthians 9:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Luke 6:38 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Acts 20:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

2 Corinthians 9:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

2 Corinthians 8:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

2 Corinthians 9:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

Luke 6:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Acts 4:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

1 John 3:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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?

Matthew 7:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Proverbs 3:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

2 Corinthians 9:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Proverbs 19:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Acts 10:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

Proverbs 11:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

2 Corinthians 9:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

1 Timothy 6:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Proverbs 25:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

Proverbs 11:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Philippians 4:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

2 Corinthians 8:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

Psalms 112:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Romans 12:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Proverbs 22:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Ephesians 4:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Luke 12:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

1 Timothy 6:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Luke 14:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

1 Timothy 6:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Luke 3:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

Psalms 112:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

Proverbs 28:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

1 Peter 4:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

1 Corinthians 9:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

Matthew 5:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Deuteronomy 15:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

2 Corinthians 8:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

1 Chronicles 29:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

Acts 2:45 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

Leviticus 23:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

Philippians 4:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

Deuteronomy 24:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

Luke 14:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

Deuteronomy 15:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

Luke 21:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

John 12:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

Mark 12:41 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

Exodus 25:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

2 Corinthians 8:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Luke 6:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

Deuteronomy 15:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

Deuteronomy 15:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Acts 20:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

1 Corinthians 16:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

Deuteronomy 15:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Nehemiah 5:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

James 2:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

2 Corinthians 8:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

2 Kings 4:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

Romans 15:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

Luke 6:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

2 Corinthians 9:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

Luke 11:41 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

Psalms 67:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

Proverbs 31:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Proverbs 25:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

2 Corinthians 9:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

Proverbs 19:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Proverbs 11:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

2 Corinthians 8:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

Luke 14:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

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